My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
Why should the PM be placed on such a high pedestal? That an ordinary citizen should not even have the guts to write a letter to the PM?
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.
I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
I don't write for any particular kind of person.
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.
