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I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.