Quotes About Writing

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.

Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.

I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.

Academic writing is such a different way of writing.

The way I know my father is not through media. The way I know my father is in number of different ways. It's through the people who knew him well, his friends, my family. It's also through his own words, because he wrote voluminously.

I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

I believe writing is where it all begins; you can not make a film look different, you have to write it differently.

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing.

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

Facebook is actually very easy to use. It's not a difficult thing to me. I just write down a bit of my daily feelings.

Writing a comedy script is a difficult thing. I think if someone is attempting a comedy and then they fail then it's understood.

First episodes are difficult things to write.

The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.

I get so much mail from women who have lost children because one of my books is about that. There was also a period when my marriage was in difficulty, which people connected with.

It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel.