Quotes About Writing

There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.

The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.

Today was so pointless that when I tried to write about it a moment ago, my pen ran out because it couldn't take the boredom.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

After I started writing crime fiction, I said to myself, 'I may be limited, but the genre's not. There's no reason to change genres if I'm happy writing what I write.' And I am.

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.

Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

You always hope a book's going to be a success. I don't think I've ever written a book thinking, 'This will be bad and no-one will like it!'

I think Noah Hawley's writing is hilarious, and I love a good dark joke.

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.