I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.
I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.
Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.
Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.
Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.
At the 'Times,' all journalists on every subject followed the same rules and were supposed to meet the same standards, so I never really thought about fashion writing as being in a bubble.
The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.
I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.
Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen.
I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.
Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.
