Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
Reality is what we tell to go screw itself every time we write or read a book, shoot or watch a movie.
Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and relevant.
I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.
