Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.
Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
You can't go by what things look like on paper.
If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.