Quotes About Writing

I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.

Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands.

But I think you have to accept - as I have accepted - that the demands of TV are different than the demand of book writing.

Writing about my life was a 13-year process where I had to face my demons as I wrote and take the time to understand them, then defeat them.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.

I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

The success of a film depends on the screenplay, and nothing else.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.

Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was despairing at times, that I got depressed and felt like I couldn't cope. Writing became about being honest.

I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get them.

It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able to write anywhere, but it's nice to feel that each book has a place that belongs to it, where it's home.

Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality.

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.

I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates.

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.