Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate..

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound….

Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a cell phone, swipe a card somewhere, y….

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless..

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts.

I see only what you see, but I notice what I see..

As a director you already have a script, you have actors... you have collaborators when you're a director. When you're writing there's no one to coll….

I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjun….

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cr….

The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others….

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over..

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life..

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications..

I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writin….

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up..

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves..

I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me..

We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly ….

I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to different parts of our world, because y….

To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedr….

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays..