Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

I had never really co-written. I thought it was weak or something if I needed to collaborate.

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists working together to make one thing.

I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.

I rarely write by myself.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good guidance because you don't make it in this business without good editors and a lot of support from your publishers.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!

It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.