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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

Write whatever you like!

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.