All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before.
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
Secret 9.6. When writing a contact report, the term 'intense vocalization' should be used in place of words like 'moan,' 'pant' and 'sigh.
No doubt zombie films are dumb, but I find it impressive that zombies can hold a camera relatively steady, let alone write a screenplay.
When you send someone a postcard and write “Wish you were here” on the back, where exactly are you saying you wish they were?
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
