People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
I read the writings of great men and women so that I can think bigger thoughts.
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.
I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.
I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.
I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack
I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.
