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I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.
I love writing. I really look up to Lena Dunham, who writes and directs her show. That's something I might want to do when I'm older.
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.
I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.
This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.
The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.
I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.
I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.
And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.
A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.
Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.
When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that happened within the course of a year. I had an excitement about this newly found faith, and so I was writing about that in a very evident kind of way.
Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.
I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes a 'Huh?' They weren't sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows.
I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.
Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!
Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.
Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.
When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.
I don't write all the time. But if I'm writing something, I'll just bang into it every day until it's finished. I write pretty quickly.
I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.
I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.
If I'm not with my family or playing football then I'm usually in my office writing and drawing.
I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.
I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.
Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.
In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.
I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.
I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'
My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.
I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because the Grand Banks had closed.
Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.
When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.
When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else's eyes.
Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
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