Quotes About Writing

'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

I believed that writing my story was my best shot to be able to pay my mom and my attorneys back and pull myself out of this massive crisis that I had put myself in.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

I've always had a maturity within my writing.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.

I love everything that Cormac McCarthy has written.

It's very difficult to be asking other people for opportunities. It is much more empowering to be creating opportunities, to be the one who is saying, 'Look, I'm going to take this from the ground up and create a story that is meaningful to me as an Asian American and cast it with Asian Americans and have Asian Americans writing it.'

As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over them and also makes them meaningful to other people.

I've engineered my life so that my only value in this world is in my writing, which is really dangerous, because if it's a failure, then my life is meaningless.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

I just write mechanical things.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

TV is a writer's medium.

I just like to go where the material is, whether that's TV, or movies, or the stage. As long as it's great writing, it's pretty much something I can't resist.

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.

As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.

I'd love to write more observational comedy but the stuff people seem to respond to is the most personal so it's snowballed from there.

I just feel that if people write about a film, then they should also write about audience's response.

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

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.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.