Whenever I write about my family, I start by getting my parent`s approval. I like to think I write about them with obvious affection. When it comes to the people I'm related to, I consider myself to be very lucky.
Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.
I never write with particular actors in mind.
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often.
I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.
I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama. It's heavy. Also, I think the humor really highlights the pathos and the struggle. You can slam it up against drama, and it makes both shine.
I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.
The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.
Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].
Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.
I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book, but I don't have any idea of what it's going to say. I would call my experience of creativity 'inspired by God' to produce certain pieces of information that might be useful to others.
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.
I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.