Quotes About Authorship

In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer will turn in a script and never be heard from again.

I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so.

I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on top of that when I'm writing.

I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

In the world of book writing, there's a few people, maybe, where you have close relationships. In TV, there are so many more relationships, and they're all so critical.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

I know how to write fiction well.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

I like going back and writing fiction.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it.

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.

I had been offered a six-figure deal to write two cookery books. Six figures, at just 23.

Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.