Quotes About Writing

I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we want to write about.

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.

I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it's disheartening; you don't want to go on. That's what I think is hard - the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done.

Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

I only write in blue ink.

I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.

I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing fiction, at least in part, because it was a way to feel like I was around people, to feel the energy and hum of others' inner lives, without the real-time frustrations and difficulties of actual relationships.

We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6 for your inner voice that helps you write.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.

I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.