One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.
I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.
I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate.
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.
I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
