I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
... (lady i will touch you with my mind.) Touch you, that is all/lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care/ the poem which i do not write.
I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.
It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.
I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
