Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art….

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it..

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were re….

I'd just love to sit at home, wake up at 10AM, go to my own office with my dog, and write a movie. I don't know if I'm capable of doing that though. ….

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone..

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of th….

I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea….

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and know….

Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self..

I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study li….

I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappea….

If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. A….

Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Bau….

The hardest bits of my book to read were the easiest bits to write because they were the most immediate. Probably because I had never stopped thinkin….

[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Pub….

What I've wanted to do my whole life is just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little….

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own fami….

I'm not the sort of person who does my mathematics writing on paper. I do that at the last stage of the game. I do my mathematics in my head. I sit d….

I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look ba….

I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out ho….

Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't have 30 pages to slowly ….