I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.
I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.
There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've got a fever.
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.
