Zitat des Tages über Ich schreibe / I Write:
I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.
Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.
I'm an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for 'Vice Magazine,' and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones.
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.
Many people keep photos in their homes, in their office, or in their wallet, and happy families tend to display large numbers of photos at home. In 'Happier at Home,' I write about my 'shrine to my family' made of photographs.
Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and the less attention I give to the argument. Arguments come and go.
I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.
When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.
Part of me wants to stay hidden; it's no coincidence that I write movie music. It lets me stay in the shadows, in a way, but still lets me be expressive.
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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.
I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a seminar where we discuss film or theater and do improvisations.
Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.
I write everything out in longhand in one fast go. And then I throw out the first few and start over again. By the end of the first draft, the whole thing's messy and disgusting and horrible, but you really understand the foundational stuff.
I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.
I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.
I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to.
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins or losses. I used to stand on a certain piece of rug if my brothers and husband were watching football and their team got in trouble - but now the luck went out of that rug. If a circle is involved, I try to go clockwise.
We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.