When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
It did not prepare me for writing or 'Power of Attorney.' However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.
I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
Jangan mencari yang besar-besar, cukup mengerjakan yang kecil-kecil dengan cinta yang besar. Makin kecil yang kita hadapi harus makin besar cinta yang kita berikan
Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!
You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff, but there's a firefly glimmer in writing something that would please Rose.
