Tom Segura Quotes

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

What the world does not need is another script or television writer.

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.

I've always loved to write. I've been writing a lot longer than I've been acting, and I hope to continue to do that and maybe do it a little bit more in terms of, like, writing movies that I could potentially act in.

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.

What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

I'd love to write a book and dabble in TV a little more - but only if it's right. I'm not going to go out there and beg anyone for a job.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.