I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.
I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.
I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
I try to write fun - though difficult and challenging - things for actors to do, because I know if they're having fun, they're going to give it everything they got.
With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.
When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
