I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on...
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
I write about the things I feel strongly about.
I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.
I love my work but do not know how I write it.
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured...
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.
We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us b...
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.
