People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why would I change that?
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.
I enjoy writing but I wouldn't want to do it all the time because generally you are not writing about things you want to write about.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
I prefer my writing to do all the talking for me.
Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
