Quotes About Writing

There aren't enough good scripts.

The majority of scripts I get are in the comedy genre.

My heart truly lies in good scripts.

In school, I used to write scripts and all that good stuff.

I am open to writing more, and not just film scripts but maybe also a book.

You need good scripts to approach stars.

Every time I wrote a school scene, I thought of that drama studio, because that's where I was a bit lost at sea.

Sean's a great, great writer.

When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

I had always secretly wanted to write a novel.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I'm obsessed with beauty - seriously, one of my dreams is to write a book about beauty secrets and do a skincare line.

I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that.

A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are too much, and it's overwhelming.

When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to write about them. Then you might ask why I would write about them at all, but I think I owe it to the Jens of the past.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum.

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

There's a cafe in Mosman near where I lived and if I have any days off I go there at 10 in the morning with my notebook, sit in the same chair, order the same breakfast and coffee, write my thoughts down, and chat, have the same conversation with the owner.

I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.

I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.

When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.