Quotes About Writing

I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short story writing.

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.

You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody - somebody close to me. It's often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

I can only get to a certain point as I write and then I have individual conversations with everyone that I cast. I always do a rewrite based on the conversations.

My biggest source of inspiration is listening to people's conversations. I'm a big eavesdropper.

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

I have no college education; I taught myself how to write. If you want it badly enough, you can have it. You can walk into any room and convince the person that you know what you're doing.

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

Sometimes you just dread reading scripts; it's like the chef who doesn't want to cook at home.

Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.