Quotes About Writing

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I could try, and one of them was writing a novel.

I like to write a lot of satire.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

It is extremely satisfying when you finish a script, but the process of it can be just nerve-wracking.