Quotes About Writing

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.

Screenwriting is about condensing.

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

I can't remember what my first script was.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows.

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

Good scripts are hard to find.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

I have always wanted to be more interested in scripts.

A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor can do well. I don't think those kinds of scripts ever work.

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.