Graeme Simsion Quotes

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

You become a great writer by writing.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

I started writing stories as a child.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

I write novels and other things.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

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 never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.