I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.
And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.
My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.
I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot.
Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.
When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.
