I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.
Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.
Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.
Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.
In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
