Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.
It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.'
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful.
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.
Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton.
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.
I didn't write. I just wandered about.
When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
I can write a book in probably three months.
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
