Washed Out Quotes

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

For me, writing in English is not an easy task.

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.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

I know of a few writers who are husband and wife teams.

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when we write. We're always writing alone anyway.

There's a fairy story called the 'The Shoemaker and the Elves' where this old cobbler keeps leaving leather out overnight and wakes up the next day, and there's a new pair of shoes. Co-authoring is a little like that. You send off the manuscript to your partner, and a few days later, you check your email, and hey, there's more book in here!

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

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

I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world - there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr.

Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.

I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.

The good news, when you write with another, is that you never have an empty page in front of you. The bad news is... you never have an empty page in front of you.

I rarely write by myself.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.