I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for me, cert….

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip f….

One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will not be rem….

Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the s….

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in f….

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous..

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever s….

To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man goes to a job and he isn't really interested in ….

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction..

I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual and accurate and ….

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience..

The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is n….

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'.

The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is impo….

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would imp….

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers li….

Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about a chart-….

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life..

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion..

Anything that I write comes from the soul..

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money..