Lexi Alexander Quotes

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

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've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it's physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog.

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.