I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full….

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals..

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all hav….

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprint….

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into ….

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writer….

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Writing has never been that simple for me..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular..

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things..

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that f….

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else..

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history..

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm,….

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing..

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be calle….

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day..