I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transition into feature directing thanks to this script we wrote together and our incredible producer Jordana Mollick.
I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.
I really liked writing rhyming poems and plays.
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your head as you're writing it.
Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.
And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
To be honest, I chose romance because writing a book seemed so dauntingly long. I looked around for something short, discovered Harlequin romances, and decided to read a few to see if I could do it.
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
