Astrid S Quotes

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work, and see what's working and what's not.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.

There are a lot of guys who do this job, and they have tons of assistants. They all kind of write together, and for me, it's basically me here in this room, and that's it.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

The Longstockings are eight children's and young adult writers. We all came out of the New School MFA program, and we meet regularly to critique each other's work.

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

I like writing with people. I think the times that I've closed myself off to not writing with people, I haven't gotten the best product because I haven't had anyone to go back and forth with and really discuss what's going on in my life, what's going on in their life. It's so important to have that connection.

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.

I've been writing the show with Nigel Coan, the director of 'Luxury Comedy', and Tom Meeten. Three's good. With two, you can lock horns a bit. On your own, you're not sure whether what you've made is any good. I don't know how people write novels. I would go mad.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

Titles either come to you at the beginning or they don't come to you at all, I find, and I hate the feeling that I haven't got a title because it usually means that you are left at the end scrambling around trying to find something.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.