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.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
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.
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.
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.
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.
Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.
I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
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.
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
