Quotes About Writing

Even when I was writing the script for 'Don,' I suspected it could lead to a sequel.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel.

Christopher Miller

Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.

I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

I've had a series of setbacks in my life, which I've written about.

I've always been passionate about movies, TV, and writing, and I've been working so hard at it for so long. There were lots of setbacks, but I loved it so much, there was no alternative.

Limited series ensure that we maintain the quality of the writing on the sets.

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.

When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.