Barry Eisler
Related When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I us... DAN GILROY When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share somethin... ETGAR KERET CHRIS CORNELL JUNOT DIAZ IGGY POP I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of ... DAVE GAHAN CRAIG GROESCHEL It's always good to see the world; always good to see new places. When I'm sitting at home, ... ROMAN REIGNS DAVID NICHOLLS TIM CAHILL I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d... UMBERTO ECO Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON C. JOYBELL C. All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when... MIKE POSNER When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing... ADAM RAPP BILL BURR BILLY COLLINS I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of ... KATE O'MARA KHALED HOSSEINI AARON SORKIN When I go in the studio, I put myself into a place where I'm feeling something I want to portray... JAMIE XX NATASHA TRETHEWEY Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries... B. D. WONG ARTHUR MILLER PARK CHAN-WOOK CANDACE BUSHNELL When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'... RALPH PETERS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's ne... FORTUNE FEIMSTER DOVE CAMERON A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up. KACEY MUSGRAVES Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between ... EMILY GIFFIN I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'... ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only... SHERILYN FENN CONOR OBERST I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of... BROOKE ELLIOTT JASON RITTER BEBE REXHA LOIS LOWRY It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. Bu... BARRY SCHWARTZ The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE HENRY ROLLINS When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the ... SHEPARD SMITH If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furnit... GENE LUEN YANG WILLIAM STYRON If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER AARON PEIRSOL C. JOYBELL C. His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write ... K'NAAN HENRY JAMES CHARLIE KAUFMAN ERIN WASSON I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easi... ROBBIE WILLIAMS JOE SACCO I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me disc... FLOYD SKLOOT Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the comple... BRANDI CARLILE CASSIE SCERBO CASS MCCOMBS I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but n... SADIE JONES When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm wr... BENNY BLANCO ALAN MOORE NELSON ALGREN When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when yo... TEA OBREHT COREY TAYLOR GERRY COONEY GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. Th... BEN MCLEMORE MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I ha... ERIK HASSLE For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It'... ADAM MANSBACH People ask me all the time which I would prefer doing more, but I honestly can't say. When I'... CASSIE STEELE DEMI LOVATO CHLOE THURLOW RAYMOND CARVER 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to... HANNAH MURRAY When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside w... ADAM MANSBACH TOM STOPPARD DAVID BERGEN I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painti... CHARLYNE YI I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good p... PATRICK DEWITT CHRISTINA AGUILERA I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the e... HARMONY KORINE MATT DILLON EVAN DAVIS The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I ge... JACKIE EARLE HALEY I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN ROBYN For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's wei... SAMPHA I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES AARON SORKIN LUCINDA WILLIAMS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS MIRANDA HART When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the ou... PAT BARKER When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held stea... JEREMY SCOTT
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To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when y... 
When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whate... 
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The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I ju... 
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Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a ... 
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. ... 
It is a lie. 
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It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm goin... 
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling. 
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I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p... 
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I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go... 
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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling. 
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I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers&#... 
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Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
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I am about as detailed as a shadow. 
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. 
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I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me. 
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The whole system of society tells you what to do. 