Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft melodies. But then, as I got better on the guitar, I started exploring different sounds.
Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.
Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
Show-running is a very difficult job that includes so many responsibilities; I'm working with the actors, working with directors, writing, making decisions like, 'What fabric is that sofa gonna be?'
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.
I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.
