Jane Asher Quotes

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?

I always try to write the best I can.

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

I want to have new challenges and write new crazy books because I think it makes me a better writer to be insecure and try new things.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going.

There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.