Quotes About Writing

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

Why is it only when Rajinikanth is involved that you want to write controversies?

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

My favorite thing that I can do with my iPhone is dictate a letter.

I'm writing all the time when I'm at home. When I'm on the road, I just get ideas, and I put it on my iPhone.

I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.

I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.