I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. Th….

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vaca….

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons..

"Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life.".

I'm addicted to writing..

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea c….

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it..

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority..

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the c….

The love of every single one of my lives..

It's not nuclear physics. You always remember that. But if you write about sports long enough, you're constantly coming back to the point that someth….

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy..

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'.

I was in musicals and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs I thought I wanted to be on Broadway, but it was n….

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles..

I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it..

At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No….

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music..

When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!.

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together..

You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want o….