Taylor Sheridan Quotes

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!

I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.

I like being a writer.

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.

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

I always get excited when I find out there's a sequel, because all the work is kind of done.

Even when I was writing the script for 'Don,' I suspected it could lead to a sequel.

In this business, you never really expect a second season of something.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

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

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and Petronius - whereas with comics, they've only been doing them for a hundred years, and there's stuff that nobody's done before. I think I'll go off and do some of the stuff no one's ever done before.

I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.

I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.

For me, as an actor, the most challenging thing is creating the character in the beginning because you have to write their backstory. The easy part about doing a sequel is that you've done the film, so you already know their backstory.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.