To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive..

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing..

When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good..

Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more th….

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist..

You have to learn to hallucinate..

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing..

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in mom….

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage..

Aaron Sorkin wrote me one of the best female roles on television, I think. He's a wonderful writer for all people. If he chooses to write, hopefully ….

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most….

I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understandi….

There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is tha….

I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way….

Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or wi….

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it..

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge..

I write, but I also act..

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book be….

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career b….

I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories..