There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about t….

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are..

And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If….

Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your preside….

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone..

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager..

If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in words, and so what you do is ….

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together..

I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, nor would I, could I, ever ….

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever..

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpreta….

I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma..

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your ….

That the things that have impacted me most are not news articles written by older people that I would have no relation to; the things that impact me ….

Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write….

Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between my characters I rec….

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write..

The Catcher in the Rye had such a deep impact on me, because it felt like it was just Holden and me. I didn't feel like any other person had read tha….

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite power….

I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off..

Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and dee….