One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Don't weep for me; don't write any sob stories.
When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
I did a web series years ago where I helped write a kind of a spoof called 'Young Love.'
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about.
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.
I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and nuances. It's exciting to develop that as a writer.
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
