Elizabeth Berg Quotes

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

It's fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life - but that part is fun.

I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

I let the images crowd my mind before I start writing a script.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

Sometimes... I'll just stand there... in the white room... and say stuff. I'm creating high-quality content.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.