I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.
I'm kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I date a bit. The best catharsis is to write jokes and tell 4,000 people about it.
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it. ~ Oscar Hammerstein
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.
That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.
