Writing Quotes
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
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I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process.
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Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.
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Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing for the theatre does not give you permission to lecture, hector or bore.
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There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.
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I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
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Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film stands on its own, apart from whether it's based on a novel.
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The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.
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I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
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I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
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I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.
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One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
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My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!
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Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark.
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Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.
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My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.
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Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
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One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.
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I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.
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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.
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It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.
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I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.
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In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.
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Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.
