Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.
Writing is a lonely business.
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand.
I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer to it, and you have to cross things out. You put a line through it, but it's still there. You might need it. When you erase a line on a computer, it's gone forever.
At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.'
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'
Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.
