Quotes About Writing

As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write.

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch.

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.

I can tell you that when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, our writer, when she would work on some of these grander novels like, say, a book like 'The Golden Bowl', that would take her months and I wouldn't know what she was doing, really.

I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

You don't need to have kids to write a good book for kids. I don't want my kids to see themselves in my books. Their lives should be their lives.

A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There is no choice in the matter that if you need to write a good book, you also need to have good marketing for it.

If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

I'm very glad people love 'Breaking Bad,' but the harder character to write is the good character that's as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy.

The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day.

I think comedy is very easy. Its all in the writing. If the writing is good and you have good director it is good.

It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they were.

The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'

My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person.

A good script makes our job a lot easier.

I love TV, and I love a good script.

A good script can come from anywhere.