I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors like Jane O'Connor and Jon Scieszka.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.
I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive part of my job.
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
And I'm interested in writing music that takes risks. My point is that maybe the term EDM is pinned on me and my buddies, but maybe it'll be less so if I experiment.
Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.
There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society.
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.
Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
I'm not a polemicist; I had no business writing a polemic.
I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'
