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Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.
When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.
I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.
I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.
I think that as a director, especially when it comes to writing the script, which I also do, and I'm also the first one to visualize this story, I think contributing to the film industry means I'm able to take the best of a story and translate it well into a movie that can be released in theaters.
In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I could receive in return - a hit song, per se, is what most contemporary artists have to deal with when they deal with a label.
I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.
I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
When I'm not working in a professional capacity, I'm writing, and when I'm at home, it's a way of having contact with people or communicating.
I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.
I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested in telling the story and also very worried about the effects the story would have.
After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.
I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.
I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.
I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.
Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm not writing a guidebook on how to be or how my people should be seen. I'm telling very specific stories.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.
The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and things finally start to make sense.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.
I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.
Everything about video games has changed. The writing, the acting, the visuals, obviously - everything has gone to a new level. And the difference that I see as an actor is that I don't have to push that extra bit to sell what's going on.
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
Writing about carrying the past on your back is a manifestation of my Irishness, because we go on and on and will for another two or three generations.
Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.
While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing thing.
The success of 'Those Who Save Us' had an interesting effect on the writing of 'The Stormchasers.'
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.
When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.
I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.
Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.
I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.
I knew Chester. I've known Chester since 2001. I was in a band called Dry Cell, and we were signed by the same guy that signed Linkin Park, so that's how I knew him. He would come to some of our writing sessions and rehearsals; I'd see him in the studios that we were at.
I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.
I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting to try.
I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.
For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.
One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.
During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
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