Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.
I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.
I had been writing professionally since 1988.
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.
Writing a check is easy. The opportunity for real change happens when there's a person who comes to you with real passion to create a movement.
We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.
I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
I took all my TV experience and what I learned about - by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance - about the realities of the independent film market: 'Transparent' is the marriage of those two situations.
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred.
I don't ever want to be too unhealthy because writing in a show, starring and producing, you need a lot of energy.
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.
Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel, and novels demand that the writer goes deeper, both emotionally and thematically.
George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that.
I've always loved writing.
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.