Write Quotes
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
