As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me.… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I think I have always sort of cultivated a flowery writing style. I've always sort of over - written in every genre… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I can't fault other writers and directors for how they choose to present themselves, but I just think people are very… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird...… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible,… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
This is for the writers. I want to thank all the writers. I especially want to thank my fellow nominees because I… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors… — Diablo Cody Copy Share
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the… — Diablo Cody Copy Share
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes. — Diablo Cody Copy Share
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers… — Diablo Cody Copy Share
I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I… — Diablo Cody Copy Share
But here is the single greatest thing about the 'Vanity Fair' party: There are uniformed In-N-Out Burger employees circulating the room with trays of… — Diablo Cody Copy Share
People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies. — Diablo Cody Copy Share
This is for the writers. I want to thank all the writers. I especially want to thank my fellow nominees because I worship you… — Diablo Cody Copy Share
I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so… — Diablo Cody Copy Share
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to… — Diablo Cody Copy Share
In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad… — Diablo Cody Copy Share
The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me. — Diablo Cody Copy Share
I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality. — Diablo Cody Copy Share
