Rob Lowe Quotes

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.

When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

I was very much inspired by the things that I'd seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. 'It's Classified' and my previous book 'Eighteen Acres' are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it's by design.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.