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.
One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response.
My introduction to Woody Allen and to Ethan Coen was at the same time. On Broadway, I starred in a play called 'Relatively Speaking,' which was three one-act comedies, one of which was written by Ethan and one of which was by Woody.
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer.
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.
Nobody: That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood.
Nameless: Great calligraphy. Broken Sword: Great swordsmanship. Nameless: You didn't see my swordsmanship. Broken Sword: Without it, I couldn't have written this calligraphy.
Prem Kumar: So are you ready for the final question for 20 million rupees? Jamal Malik: No, but maybe its written, no? Prem Kumar: Maybe...
