Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion..

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'….

It's more like I write multiple first drafts, handwritten. So with my first novel, I wrote whole drafts from different points of view. There are diff….

I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make it, they make it. If they get….

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of ….

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ...….

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy..

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write..

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well..

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages..

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all..

I remember I used to go to The Laugh Factory and just goof off onstage, and then I'd see Dane Cook. He did a bit about his Mom making the bed in the ….

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves..

I do believe that in the future, not by dismantling what we have here - I helped write that bill - but by moving forward, rallying the American peopl….

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished..

There probably aren't a lot of new superheroes around, so whenever one appears, it makes a bit of noise. Really, most of the people who are my friend….

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University..

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place..

I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people ….

So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contem….

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing..