I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much more interested in maternal an….

Most acting today on television is like a locomotive on a track. Everybody knows what they are doing. The problem of writing today is everyone sounds….

A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something..

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-ho….

It's difficult to sit down and write a letter back saying, "you know what, even if we remove the word from the dictionary, people will still continue….

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd..

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work..

Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less painful, nor does it help….

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometime….

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories..

I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn ….

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing..

I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and ….

Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come….

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paint….

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time..

I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me..

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up throu….

I write music. I'm in a band..

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of ….

I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write..