There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really.
I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.
They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
I've written a little bit in Germany.
But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
I don't know anything about press conferences. " "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.
Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].
When you read a great book at one point in your life then in another part of your life, when you read the same book, it's like it was just written because now what you bring to the experience is so much richer.
There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven to show them just how wrong they are.
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.
A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.
What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers.
I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.