Sadie Jones Quotes

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.

I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

I can concentrate on my art.

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers or readers. I write the story the way it comes to me.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

I write my books never thinking of an actor.

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.