My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
So often, I think shows get into these grooves where they know the characters hit, and they just write for it over and over and over again.
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
I write all my hooks.
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
I try to write humanistic songs.
I consider myself a bit of a comedian. I write a lot of humorous songs.
I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.
Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.
I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
I've always idolized people who can write songs.
