Writing Quotes

"I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing."

"I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive."

"I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in."

"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."

"I have two dogs, and I write at home."

“I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.”

“Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.”

“I love my work but do not know how I write it.”

“What is writing but an expression of my own life?”

“Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.”

“Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.”

“I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.”

“I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.”

“I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.”

"I'm a writer, so I like nuances."

"So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer."

"I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see."

"For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working."

"I really, really, really love writing comics."

"I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert."

"I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves."

"I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did."

"Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse."

"You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow."

"I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem."