To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Every time I write something I think this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

When I write stuff and I help cast it I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

If you're living in your time you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro I would be thankful the rest of my life.

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

I decided that if I were to write a teen series I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

I try to write about how we live today how we use language technology our bodies.

Second we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.