Writing Quotes

Swallowing the negative words rising up my throat; I am writing my days with smiles and laughter.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

It’s not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn’t.

I’ll write my secrets in the sand next to driftwood and seashells then let the waves wash them away. Wishing forgetting was that easy. – secrets in the sand.

I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I’m songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It’s so important.

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it’s a good crack and you feel you’re on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.