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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.