I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
I don't know how to write love letters.
I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.
When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.
Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.
I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.
It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book.
I think I had my answers to the questions in 'The Witch,' and I had my answers to the questions in 'The Lighthouse;' I need those in order to write and direct them.
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that it comes from a slightly different part of the brain, I think.
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
