Writing Quotes
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
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It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.
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My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.
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I always try and make people feel that they are strong enough to say something - anything, to anyone - even if it's a stranger or they're just writing a tweet if they're in danger.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
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Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in the writing and acting on both!
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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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.
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'Monstress' has been hard because I want to keep writing longer, but I can't.
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I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.
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I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
