Sophie Ellis-Bextor Quotes

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.

My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.

I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

My first book is called 'Carry the Three.' It's definitely in a drawer, and it's terrible. I never sent it to anybody. My wife read it, but nobody else.

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

There's no literary merit in my books.

Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know?

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.

The fact remains that I am a very artless and incompetent writer.