I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.
If you're still watching, write in and we'll send you a fiver each.
Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can dois to write, for in the act of writing we deny our mutedness and beginto eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.
Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.
The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that. . . Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.
Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
Whenever I write about my family, I start by getting my parent`s approval. I like to think I write about them with obvious affection. When it comes to the people I'm related to, I consider myself to be very lucky.
You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the historicals, however, but if that's all I did I would go crazy, same with any of the other kinds of books. I need variety.
I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.
I love it, man; I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening.