I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of eve….

Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of peo….

I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwr….

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery..

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer..

It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without….

I write from my stomach..

I hate the tribal hatred thesis - in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and places like that they kill each other because that's just what people do there. I thin….

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the e….

I never thought about writing the part where the pirates get on board the ship. I wasn't interested in that. I'm not an action director. I'm sure tha….

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is….

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our w….

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing ….

When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in t….

Humans sort of instinctively respond negatively to something that's not true..

I would've been able to write anything about mental-health crises had I not felt good..

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.

Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where e….

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood..

Buy less, buy better, and really wear it..

The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is something that….