Books Quote by Harry Enfield

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

— Mel Gibson

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I…

— Melanie Lynskey

I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of time and…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing…

— PJ Harvey

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a…

— John Gardner

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form…

— Laurence Housman

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

— Shane Black

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

— Tom Robbins

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider…

— Nick Cave

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word.…

— Jonathan Tropper