Scott Haze Quotes

I've always been passionate about the stories I want to tell.

I always write about something that moves me.

Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.

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

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.

I wanted to be a story teller so badly.

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.

I've always had a lot of story ideas rattling around in my head, but 'Nimona' felt very tangible very early. I knew the ending. So I just started making more and more pages, and then I made it a webcomic, like, 'OK, I'm really gonna do this.'