Simon Beaufoy Quotes

There is no magic in all the world like that magic when you sell your first bit of writing.

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

Authors should be honored only for their works.

It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction and fan fiction writers are, and then the Internet gets all upset and shocked, and then the author is shocked that people could get so upset.

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

I write all of my material. It's all me.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.

I do remember dancing in my living room when my short story 'The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat' won a Chizine fiction contest in 2002.

My first novel was a critical success in a matter of weeks.

It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.

I just want credit for my ideas, because I am the creative force behind TLC.

When I created the email in the U.S., my mentor could have easily copyrighted it and taken credit for it.

While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.

I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working writer.

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

My whole life, I wanted to write. What validates you as a writer is the adulation of fans... and I've got that... 'Animal Review' is pretty well-known.

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

In L.A., anytime a show is a success, people come out of the woodwork claiming they had the idea first.

You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about five copies; now kids study them for A level. Wanting to be successful in that other world of money or fame is not interesting. Poetry isn't like that, and it never has been.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.