I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up ...
What I don't write is as important as what I write.
I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
People write to me all the time, and I write back.
I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It helps me to write any play that I'm working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors.
I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is...
There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.
Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room. I have closed my arms again. They must do without. To knock at my heart is like knocking at a tomb. Do not write! Do not write. Let us learn to die, as ...
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.
Honestly...this is why I write. I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me. I write for my sanity.
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.
I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.
