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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.