If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.
First episodes are difficult things to write.
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it.
When they write my epitaph, it's going to say, 'Innate Immunotherapeutics, saving millions of lives.' It's not going to be 'member of Congress.'
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.
You can type things on the Internet. You can have no credentials in any area and just get on your smart phone and write whatever you want.
I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.
What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please.
I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.
It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.
I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women.
You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.
I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.
I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'
