Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetite...
I don't write to be understood; I write to understand.
The thing I write will be the thing I write.
I write - and then I write some more.
I don't write stories, I write characters.
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
I don't know why I write what I write.
I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.
Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.
I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.
I write the way I write.
I don't just write letters. I write laws.
I write because I cannot NOT write.
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. ...
I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the stories because I was writing in a voice more my own, as opposed to a man's. HBO ended up buying four of them. I think that ha...