Freddie Prinze Jr. Quotes

I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

If you can talk, you can write.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

I just see myself as someone who has a bit of a way with words, basically.

I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.

I don't write. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in.

In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always written it and loved the way words interact, in meaning and in sound.

Sometimes there were certain things in 'Limmy's Show' where I'd be having to come up with six episodes and as a result there was stuff in there that wasn't my favourite and I'd think, 'ach I'll shove that in this episode.'

I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.

Writing 'Magneto' as part of a team took a little getting used to.

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.

Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

I always wanted to write about comics and I have written little things here and there but I am not confident in my writing.

I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that'd ever been before. It took us about a year to write our first script.