In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a religi….

When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Mem….

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the su….

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language B….

It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules..

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked….

For many American-Jewish writers, the dominant motifs have been cultural, secular, sometimes comic, often satirical. Writing about the religious comp….

I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing to say. I don't consider it writer's bloc….

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I jus….

The way that I'm feeling the shift in movie industry is that women are allowed to be part of the development process. So I do feel like things are ch….

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say..

The tortured always remain tortured..

I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted lyrics that would connect with as many people as pos….

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult..

I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see limitat….

I'm the little fat cruiser weight, write me off at your peril..

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape..

Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don….

I'm excited about being able to write and produce songs from an executive standpoint as well as the business side of it and the political side of it.….

Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off..

I would love to do something with Coldplay..