In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.
Anything that Aaron Sorkin writes, I could watch a million times. One of the few shows that I've watched in repeats was 'The West Wing.'
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.
The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.
I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.
When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get.
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.'
It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
A whore is a whore is a whore. Except when he's something else completely. From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High Priest of the Temple of the Sun
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
