I've been ripping the Rolling Stones off with every song I write in some form or another.
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
I write a lot of sad songs!
I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.
It is difficult not to write satire.
I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
I write screenplays in the middle of the night.
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.
I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
A lot of people were moved to write after September 11th. It had to affect us all in a way.
I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
I write all my sermons.
My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.
When I write, I can shake off all my cares.
