Quotes About Writing

I am always looking for a good script.

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.

I never write with constraints, which I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.

The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and then you see those decisions through to the end.

I read Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha' while I was writing 'Lord of Light' along with many other things. It seemed a good time to read it so I could see what he had to say about Buddha. In my first chapter, I was thinking in terms of the big battle scene in the 'Mahabarata.' It helped me in visualizing the battle in my novel.

As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining relationships - and what's more defining than a relationship with someone you love?

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I want to become a very good writer.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

To make anything successful, you need a good writer.

I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something.

I never wanted to be a celebrity writer. I wanted to be a good writer. I'm still trying to be a good writer. That's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

It took me a while to affirm the fact that I'm actually a really good writer. I couldn't even call myself a writer with a straight face because I didn't take my gift seriously.

Priyadarshan makes good films because he is a good writer.

If you're a good writer, you don't have everybody shouting in every scene.