I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.
If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.
I don't write poems to melt your heart. I write them, so our hearts can melt together.
The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.
I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
