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I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.