Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes

When you're actually inside the experience of writing something, in some ways, you're just writing. Ultimately, you fall in love with the characters, and you get excited about the story, and you're sitting there in your sweatpants or pajamas, and you do get a little lost in it.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

Writing the 'Crossfire' series is deeply personal for me, and I love the whole process of it.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Over time, I decided to take up only those stories I love.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding you rather than you guiding them.

I loved the writing process. I loved it.

There's some of me in all my characters.

I love all the characters I write.