Merritt Wever Quotes

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.

I'm a writer, not a genre.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

I write novels and other things.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

I've liked Pete Gurney's writing always.

I write stories, I don't just write rhymes, I write books.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

I write short stories. I write every day.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.