I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.
I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.
Alice: When I get home I shall write a book about this place... If I ever do get home.
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false.
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.
I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.
