My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
I'm like a junkie for writing.
I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.