Quotes About Writing

I always got appreciation for the columns I wrote for newspapers.

I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.

I want to take on more diverse roles, and I keep building, and I hope to one day write or direct something. But I just want to keep developing as a person, and that will hopefully take my acting to the next level.

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job.

For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.

The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system?

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness.

I had a real computer solitaire problem. I'd gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could write, and each time I got up to get a cup of water, I had to win a game. It was a nightmare.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

I love the novel as a form, as an adventure of mind and soul. Really, I absolutely love writing them; they consume my days and nights - what can I say? But I am an avid film student, too: I watch a movie every night.

On 'Mr. Robot,' because I run the writers' room and know every decision behind every line of dialogue, I'm able to be nimble and adapt with the scripts and the moments. I never have to question what I'm doing as I'm directing the actors or going through the scenes.

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'