Myself Quotes

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

I don't call myself a writer.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.