Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.
I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'
My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre.
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.
The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.
I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.
