Quotes About Writing

I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off.

It's difficult to write anything at the moment, as every week there's a seismic shift in world events.

Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things.

What you don't think when you sit down to write a show is, 'How can I be shocking?' That question isn't interesting, it's all about, 'Is this funny, does it work?'

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Writing 'Redeployment' shook me in ways I never expected.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

I've always written short stories.

I like short stories.

I write short stories. I write every day.

Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.

I've been writing short stories since I was a little girl.

I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.