What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.
I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
