We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic su….

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my o….

In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a….

I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it ….

I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming la….

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven..

I loved rollerskating when I was younger..

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell..

The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of your themes and interests. You don't wa….

Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop….

There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in….

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it..

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all so….

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. ….

The best songs I write in 20 minutes..

But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should th….

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever..

I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is the exact opposite - it's very constricted, ….

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer..

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writi….

I like to write poetry..