People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.
I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'
I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before.
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
I'm from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.
One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.
I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.
