Matthew Ashford Quotes

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects.

Sean's a great, great writer.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Everybody involved in Pixar, I've not met one person who's not incredibly creative and nice and lovely and know what they're doing.

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

George is so prolific as a writer.

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

I know I can cut it with any songwriters in the world.

You become a great writer by writing.

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.