Quotes About Authorship

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that you've written. And there's a good and a bad side to it. I think the bad side is that you never feel the same level of connection to the material - you just don't.

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others. I personally think that a writer's job is tough than a director's.

I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.

I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

I never failed at anything in fiction.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.

I know of a few writers who are husband and wife teams.

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.