Abi Morgan Quotes

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Writing has never been that simple for me.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.