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I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.
A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.
No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.
Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

























