Morris West Quotes

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.

I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my readers as well.

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.

Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

Whatever content you create, let it revolve around your interests. You shouldn't create things just because you think other people want to watch it.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

I do films that I'd also like to watch as an audience member.

I can't imagine catering to an audience that doesn't also interest me.

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad campaign, it has been because the product did not interest me.

It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.

Getting it off the ground is one thing because it has to do with finding the proper people and the financing, but finding the subject is another thing and this is always for me the most difficult part.

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.