Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.
With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.
I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.
The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.
I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.
Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
