Elizabeth Hand Quotes

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

I feel like there's a lot of great writing on television.

The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

I love writing for the screen.

When I was younger, I liked writing stories and watching younger actors on TV.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

I'd love to do a potboiler.

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.

I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I subscribe to this P.G. Wodehouse piece of advice: "Try to give pleasure with every sentence."

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.