Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else..

……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this:….

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most….

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as ….

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober..

I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I t….

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depress….

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up.

I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the story will be better or the portrayal w….

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact….

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs..

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes..

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die..

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need..

The old Lena is dead..

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm go….

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I….

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth..

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them..

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to….

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just….