I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and Godard and Milos Forman and all these people.
When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.
I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.
I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles." --Mike Mankoff
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.
I did my degree in journalism, and I then went on to being a games journalist, reviewing and previewing games and writing about the industry, visiting and interviewing developers.
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.
I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.
It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!
I never get writer's block. My secret...I have purring cats in surround sound while I write...best white noise on the planet."
So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.
Writing monsters is fun, and it's easy. When I want one, I just reach under the bed and pull it out, kicking and screaming.
I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.
