Quotes About Writing

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

I'm not really great at writing things down unless for a roast or a particular event.

Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.

Not every script that rolls in is ready to shoot. Few are, actually. So you go back and work on the thing.

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.

I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row.

But I'm not the first person in the Royal Family to bring out a book.

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

I think Ruin and Rising' is the best written of the three and the most structurally sound, but each book means something different to me.

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.

When you're a writer on a show, your job is to write in the show runner's voice, really.

I learned a lot from Russell T. Davies, who is the most wonderful writer.

It's very difficult to write in Russian for someone who has never been schooled in Russian.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.