Pastoral Resources

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.