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Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.

On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.

I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I felt like when you're an actor, you don't get to fully creatively express yourself - most of the time, it's not your own writing or direction.

I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

When I'm not working in a professional capacity, I'm writing, and when I'm at home, it's a way of having contact with people or communicating.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

I never took creative writing.

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.