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I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.
Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.
I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.
I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.
For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words.
Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.
Anyone who's taken a lot of creative-writing classes, or taught creative writing, has learned to dread a certain kind of manuscript. It's long, for one thing. It has irritatingly small type; it's grammatically meticulous when it comes to everything but punctuation, for which it has developed its own system of Tolkienic elaboration.
No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.
When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.
I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.
You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.
My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge.
One of the things I've found most challenging about writing a multibook series is keeping it fresh and evolving while still delivering the familiarity that keeps longtime fans devoted to the characters and story world.
I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.
When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.
I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.
I almost drowned in a hot tub at a writing workshop once after I had some drinks without accounting for how the high elevation would impact my tolerance.
It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally write short stories, but only when I was commissioned by an editor to write for a themed anthology or special issue.
I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.
The biggest difference in writing a sequel is that now there are expectations. But also - and this is the awesome part - now there are fans, too!
Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.
I can't stop myself from finding information that makes me mad and writing about it.
I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.
You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.
Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.
In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.
I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.
The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.
I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
I really do love 'Panama.' But I'd also have to admit that right now, if I were driven to write another novel like that, I wouldn't even try to find a publisher for it. It simply wouldn't be published. I'd be writing it to put in my closet upstairs.
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
I became a poet in Pittsburgh. When I lived in the South, I was a basketball player and primarily a jock. An English teacher essentially suggested that I send the poems that I'd been writing - really just for him - to a few programs, so that when I wound up in Pittsburgh, it's where I figured out that I could actually be a poet.
'What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance!
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music.
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze.
I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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