Marti Noxon

The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.

— Marti Noxon

I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.

— Marti Noxon

Absolutely, love exists in this universe.

— Marti Noxon

I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.

— Marti Noxon

I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

— Marti Noxon

I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.

— Marti Noxon

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

— Marti Noxon

Women want to watch the dark stuff.

— Marti Noxon

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved…

— Marti Noxon

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning…

— Marti Noxon

It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.

— Marti Noxon

There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted…

— Marti Noxon

I'm so excited to be part of the environment that David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross have built at Skydance.

— Marti Noxon

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

— Marti Noxon

I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.

— Marti Noxon

I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.

— Marti Noxon

I'll be honest: I had a real deep-seated fear that 'Buffy' was going to be my peak. It was such a beautiful…

— Marti Noxon

I think many people expend a tremendous amount of energy on self-loathing and self-flagellation as well as getting caught in a vicious…

— Marti Noxon

I digested this value system that told me there was no one for me unless I reached a certain type of perfection.…

— Marti Noxon

Everybody expects to have a filmic experience when they're watching television, whether they're watching network, basic cable, premium, or streaming.

— Marti Noxon

I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything,…

— Marti Noxon

Not proud. But I watched 'The Bachelor' only once, and I really felt, after that experience, that I could never do it…

— Marti Noxon

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly…

— Marti Noxon

To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in,…

— Marti Noxon

Seeing Donald Trump run for and then win the presidency only enhanced my commitment to helping people free themselves from ridiculous body…

— Marti Noxon

I did, of course, do research about what the current state of affairs is in terms of the eating disorder community and…

— Marti Noxon

Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty'…

— Marti Noxon

I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very…

— Marti Noxon

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' not only applies to the deeply personal subject matter of 'To the Bone' but to…

— Marti Noxon

Can't write worrying what the Internet's going to think.

— Marti Noxon

You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.

— Marti Noxon

Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.

— Marti Noxon

The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.

— Marti Noxon

Scenes on phones are really boring!

— Marti Noxon

I encourage people and their different points of view.

— Marti Noxon

Like everbody, I'm addicted to 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

— Marti Noxon

I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'

— Marti Noxon

I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.

— Marti Noxon

I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.

— Marti Noxon

I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and…

— Marti Noxon