Quotes About Writing

I don't write. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in.

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.

Before, I was writing a script to make a movie. At a certain point, I became A Writer in Film and Television. So I got TV deals to write stuff, film deals to write stuff. But it's dangerous. I got into the WGA, and I became kind of, you know, a slave! They just pay you to write a script, and it's hard to make the movies.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

With TV-writing, you write scenes and those scenes pretty much stay as they are when you come to filming them. Sometimes you might change things on the day because of the location or the actors' availability issues.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

Every filmmaker has his own vision, and when they write a film or characters, they see certain people in those characters.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

In the last 10 to 12 years when things were not going my way, I was just writing scripts. I have a bank of 10 to 12 scripts for web-series, films and short films.

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.