Steven Knight Quotes

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.

I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between writing the novels and sort of sneaking out to work on stories occasionally. These stories were written over the last 10 years or so, as I was taking breaks from the novels I've written.

I can have people around a lot more because I'm not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.

My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and parallel career.

I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because it will really force you to organize your time.

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation from everything else. I thought a play would take away from my fiction, but the more projects I work on, the more time I have.

The things I want to focus on are music, writing, directing, and developing stuff.

I'm one of those writers that have always worked on multiple things.

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.

I was DJing for this party promotion called 1st Flight Entertainment, having to DJ on the weekends and then also going to school in the same week. So I just figured out how to balance that, then make beats on the side too.