Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
I love what I do and realize I am supremely lucky to be able to make my living by writing and speaking about the news of the day.
Writing a play to get to Broadway and have a national tour is a sure way to write a terrible, terrible play.
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved.
We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.
I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.
In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.
