Winston Graham Quotes

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

I write novels and other things.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.

I write in the studio.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.

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