You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more..

One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, ….

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script..

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetr….

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite, paint over, and come ….

I felt that we started to go through the motions. Our hearts weren't there. Because we were always working on the band, and it became more about sell….

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire..

I'm on the road to riches, it's just a lil traffic..

Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense ….

Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and everyone really ha….

When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose..

If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it..

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it..

The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow..

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a grea….

It's a privilege to be able to have an idea and go into a group of executives and say, "I really want to write about this, and I really am interested….

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think tha….

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning..

It seems like songwriting for most songwriters is only one season in their life, a five or ten year period. For me, I don't worry about it, but I kno….

Before the internet, a journalist would write an article about a company that the company felt was unfair and missed a point. All they could do was w….

I'm not the sort of person who does my mathematics writing on paper. I do that at the last stage of the game. I do my mathematics in my head. I sit d….