Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
I'm also old... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literal-minded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when I'm not telling stories have always been pretty three-dimensional. I used to say that the only strong attraction reality ever h...
There are different kinds of judgment-making. Naturally, when we meet people, we form judgments based upon how we were taught to see the world and other people (how we were raised, what we've experienced and etc.) The first kind of judgment-making is...
If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage...
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and p...
Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got up at 5 AM every morning to write before work. Every ...
