Anne Reid Quotes

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

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

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

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.