Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.

Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when we write. We're always writing alone anyway.

Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.

We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

There's a song called 'All We'd Ever Need,' which is actually the first song that the three of us wrote together on our first album, and when we wrote that song I didn't have any real experience to pull from.

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.

Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

Probably, subliminally, I think of the reader as a kind of collaborator. I don't want to say something for the reader that the reader could have said for himself.

When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.

The good news, when you write with another, is that you never have an empty page in front of you. The bad news is... you never have an empty page in front of you.

If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd love that.

So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was a sock and it went from there. Once we got going, once we got on a roll, it became very easy to work together and to figure out how to do it. We would meet for two-hour segments, usually from 10-12, two or three times a week. We met all one summer, and I think into the fall.

Alice and I, we'd met before, but we were able to kind of sit and chat on the set of Dark Shadows, and talk about maybe writing some songs together. We started doing that, and then one thing led to another and it became this Vampire project - because he was telling stories about all those days, which were fascinating.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.