It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“He was impressed with his father's fiction and noticed certain stylistic tics that he shared, and figured it was genetic. Why would… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so… — David Duchovny Copy Share
I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made… — David Duchovny Copy Share
I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have… — David Duchovny Copy Share
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So… — David Duchovny Copy Share
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. — David Duchovny Copy Share
Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money -… — David Duchovny Copy Share
I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter. — David Duchovny Copy Share
Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get,… — David Duchovny Copy Share
“Of course I’m biased, what else could I be? Bias makes the world go round, sometimes a little too fast.” — David Duchovny Copy Share
'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd… — David Duchovny Copy Share
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. — David Duchovny Copy Share
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to… — David Duchovny Copy Share
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with… — David Duchovny Copy Share
