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I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.
I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.
'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.
When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.
I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.
Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called 'Kitten.'
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
I can run the gamut with beats that no one else would think of. I'm not a trained musician, so I focus on what feels right before I dispatch to writing.
My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.
But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
I loved 'Everybody Loves Raymond' because I like Ray and I thought it was beautifully cast, I thought it was great writing. I thought Patricia Heaton was wonderful.
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.
I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.
I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.
There's nothing wrong with writing for other artists, but that's just not what my purpose is.
I'm used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.
I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.
I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.
A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.'
Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I deal with a lot of depression, so I usually use it as way to find some relief from that.
If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing about it.
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.
And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.
The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.
Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.
We're not writing songs to solve a cultural problem. The goal for us is to express what we're going through, and it's great if people find commonality in that.
There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that is to not allow yourself to deliver it that way.
I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don't tweet. I don't want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That's like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly.
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
Limited series ensure that we maintain the quality of the writing on the sets.
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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