Write Quotes

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

What I write is not for little girls.

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

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

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes.

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.