I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.
I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
I couldn't hack it in Hollywood, my writing's wasn't bad enough.
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else
When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writing because I don't know how much longer I can hold on.
I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.
So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they’ve gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am not a native. It can be a struggle to make word count sometimes, but I will persevere!
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.
I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because I just didn't outline, and I had no path.
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.
