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I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.
It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.
They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.
I started writing when I was, like, eleven. We couldn't afford private lessons, so I had to teach myself how to sing through recording songs on GarageBand.
I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching 'Scooby Doo.'
It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.
I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.
After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.
I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.
I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away.
I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.
I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.
'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.
For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.
I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things that weren't really in a musical format, which I put to some very electronic-based backing.
I started writing and recording, at a very basic level, just in my own bedroom.
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.
You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.
Most memoir writers will tell you that the hardest part of writing a memoir isn't what to include, but what to leave out.
In terms of 'Ray Donovan,' the story is so rich, the actors are so fantastic, the writing is impeccable. And it's such beautiful storytelling with complex characters.
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.
I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.
Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.
My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.
I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by writing it and then revising the entire thing. When it comes to saga, this means writing large chunks of prose before any of it coalesces into a book.
I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.
I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.
My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.
As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.
I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.
The core plot of 'Mercury' is so gripping that when I thought of making it as a silent film, it only made it more interesting. Once I finished writing the first draft, making a silent film that's both thrilling and engaging seemed possible. When the film team read the final script, they felt the same.
I start writing with an open mind without thinking about genre and realise, only after writing, that it falls under many genres.
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.
I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.
I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.
We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
I was 17 when I wrote a collection of short stories and wanted it published but it didn't happen. A lot of publishing houses don't allow young authors to enter into writing segments.
Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing.
One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
I am a genderless sea creature who has been writing and studying music since I was 12.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
Writing is a grueling process for us, and once we finish an album, we go on tour for a couple of years. Plus, we're always very involved in our own business, so we need a break when we come back.
I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.
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