I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts; it will be beautiful.
