Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent..

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become ….

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful..

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out ….

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and ….

I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only o….

One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to r….

Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human body. In fact, this priv….

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody..

Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? ….

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared,….

I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just s….

Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Ams….

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom o….

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the….

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated.….

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but….

Because I work at other things, whenever I get a chance to write I feel grateful for it. But I learned that sometimes, I couldn't do anything else an….

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is comp….

The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a f….

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Me….