Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event. " But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.
I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't do this, ' because how sad would the world be if people didn't create art and write? But, it's not an easy journey being a writer.
I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.
I think that I speak a lot like I write.
It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.