It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project yo….

With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These sto….

Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title story is going to be. Over tim….

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems….

I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's very lyrical and that's certain….

I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy re….

We do what we like, and we like what we do..

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death..

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you..

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first..

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career..

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortab….

I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a column is really good for me - the c….

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read..

Nothing unattested do I sing..

I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one,….

Sometimes it's binge eating as a method to handle emotional pain. I'll also write very sporadically - music, lyrics - to identify the problem. There ….

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically..

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. ….

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role..

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers..