Write Quotes
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.
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People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
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My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.
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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
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I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
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When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.
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I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
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All of it made me think about this book I want to write. It's about greed.
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I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line.
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
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I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
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There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.
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I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.
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No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
