I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?
I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.
I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.
I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.
If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out latera...
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images...
