I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
I'm definitely not pushing to find who can I write with or produce with, but of course I'm open to something if it comes up.
I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.
While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.
Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.
America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have...
You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it goes into the realm of fantasy. So like, if you write about a woman in America in 1910, if you don’t write that ...
Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or even that you'll be able to finish the particular work you've begun. It isn't easy to persist amid all that. [...] Some...
