Jody Hill Quotes

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.

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

I write what I write.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

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 just write what I want to write.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

When I write a novel, I am God at my own typewriter, and there is nobody in between. But when I write a screenplay, it must be a compromise because there are so many elements which are outside the writer's province.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.