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Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.

As a viewer, I liked screenwriter Park Jae-bum's writing and director Kim Hee-won's directing.

Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.

I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life with my imagination and my writing for several years. That also made it so I didn't feel desperate for someone to find me.

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?

Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.

Headline writing is an art form.

Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're the dude from the streets. Or you're the woman who was in prison.

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out - the idea that someone is reading as I'm writing stuff.

Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

The success of 'Those Who Save Us' had an interesting effect on the writing of 'The Stormchasers.'

I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing thing.

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.