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….

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working ei….

You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!.

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself..

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words..

We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't cra….