I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.
I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.
When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.
To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when we write. We're always writing alone anyway.
It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
I always write the script by myself.
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.
Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.
The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don't have to do that; you don't have to be alone in the room anymore.
I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
For me, I definitely like quiet; I like to write alone.
I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.
Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.
I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked for any help.
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.
