Write Quotes

I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.

I don’t write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

If you’re still watching, write in and we’ll send you a fiver each.

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write.

I’m very interested in compassion – compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I’m currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth book, but then more poems are coming. It’s exciting and somewhat daunting.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

All I care about is that people who like me think I’m funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.