Write Quotes

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

Write whatever you like!

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

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.