Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps.
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
Donors are sick of writing that $200 check to the Red Cross and not knowing whether it goes for the executive director's salary or the office rent.
For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
To those people doubting Serena Williams, writing her off - do not do that to a champion.
To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
It's so great to be able to write from home. My bread is rising downstairs, and I'm upstairs writing. I have a writing room that my grandchildren consider one of their playrooms.
As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other things, so yes, a good deal of writing was involved.
I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
