Life comes only from life..

Everybody comes from somewhere..

Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode….

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances..

You don't have to be famous to be great..

By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph..

I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the life….

what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of orde….

And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you’re old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well.….

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantitie….

Never throw out anyone..

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity..

That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard..

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday..

I'm a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand..

So many things I'm not, and so few things I am..

How do you make yourself not like someone?.

I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I think I'll just write sequ….

My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't have to t….

It is you who makes me see what I really am..

Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a write….