Peter Milligan Quotes

I was never a writer.

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right.

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.

I am not an emotional person, really.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

You know, the emotion - it comes in my art. The kind of person I am, I can deal with things, and I do and I can, but I'm not a crier.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I don't cry in real life. I'm just pretty light and I don't get too heavy.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work. This must be accompanied, second, by a haughty contempt for all the forms of work that one has established one cannot do. To these two must be joined, third, the nuttiness to believe that other people can be made to care about your opinions and views and be charmed by the way you state them. Incompetence, contempt, lunacy—once you have these in place, you are set to go.

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?

I'm not the kind of girl who breaks down in public.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance - and it's exactly the same with acting.