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When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can I expect anyone else to believe in that, either?
Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.
When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.
Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.
Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.
It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm totally open to useful influence. I'm praying for it.
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.
In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.
I haven't modelled since I was 12 - that was a one-time thing, and I did it as a kid to make a little money to save up for university. Acting is my first love as well as writing and eventually producing and directing.
We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.
I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.
I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.
I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.
I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs to be repeatable and joyous.
My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published - we attacked it. At any given time, I would have my writing out in 25 various forms - either contests, mentoring critiques, agent/publisher queries, etc.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.
I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.
When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.
I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called 'Potential Space.'
I wanted to use my writing skills to bring attention to the overwhelming needs of the Gulf coast region.
After writing two books featuring amazing dogs, I decided to be owned by one.
I sold 'Hattie Big Sky' without an agent but quickly realized a writing career required an agent.
After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.
I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.
I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.
I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
When I was younger, I liked writing stories and watching younger actors on TV.
I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.
I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.
I usually do my writing in a very nice room, my studio, which is in the attic of our house in Wisconsin. But the nice thing about writing is that I can do it in many places. So sometimes I'll write in coffee shops.
When I'm drawing, I only do that at home, really, at my drawing table. But writing I could do in other places. So I've written in airports, in hotels, different places.
I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.
Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.
Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.
I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.
I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.
I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!
The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to be that guy.
It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that's when it switched for me to songwriting. That's when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15.
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