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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.