It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different tools to the table. He doesn'….

I would love to do something with Coldplay..

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple..

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good.

I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back t….

If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being….

Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just ... do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints and things like that. I kind….

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first..

It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in my opinion, are complicated a….

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens..

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it..

Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what di….

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone….

Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts..

Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a….

I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doi….

As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There ar….

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be..

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself..

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun..