Quotes About Writing

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.

I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States.

I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!

My politics are expressed through the films that I write. That's why doing 'Arabikkadh' was a great experience because I got to associate with like-minded people.

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.

The writers did a great job of adapting the characters from the 'Frozen' story and implementing them into the 'Once Upon a Time' world.

Any time you get to do a David Mamet play, it's a great opportunity. His writing is such that I think it's a big challenge, but when you get it right, it's a great opportunity to play every night, really.

I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.

I think that was always my strength. I was never a great player, but I could write.

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that they have to use their minds instead of just their memories. It's tough duty.

I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.

That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

Writing is the best way to get your mind clear. It's also a great way to explain your past or what you hope for the future.

The writer in my dad is someone whom I've been inspired greatly by since my childhood.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

She grounded me. I have become very disciplined now. I would never have written the books without her. Definitely the cleverest thing I ever did was to marry Santa. Maybe it's the only clever thing I did.