If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
I write music with an exclamation point!
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas.
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.
When I was a little kid, no matter what my parents told me, I would always argue - even if I agreed with them. And I've always been a show-off. As I've gotten older, I've found ways to be more subtle about it, but that's the way I am. I suppose that has something to do with why I write and direct.
I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
I myself get nervous when I write something on social media. I make sure I don't write anything wrong.
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
I write screenplays in the middle of the night.
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
When I write I find a quiet place.
As I write, I try to be the character.
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.
Every time I write 'Stephanie Plum', it's going to be Katherine Heigl's face there.
I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most.
I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.
I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.
I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.
I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.
I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
