Justine Larbalestier Quotes

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

I'd love to write for other people.

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.

About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.

I wrote four novels under the name Amy Silver. The first one was commissioned, and I was given basically the whole plot and the characters. They told me what to do, and I went straight away and did it. After that, I continued, and I was coming up with more my own ideas, although they did steer me.

I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know.

Writing with a partner is, in some ways, an easy but odd process. Two people come into a room and look to each other for motivation. One might not be in the right mood at any given moment. And somehow, you begin; somehow, out of your exchange of thoughts, something engages both of you, and the process of collaboration begins.

Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.

I used to write jokes with friends. We'd pick a topic and then think out loud, brainstorm.

I had never really co-written. I thought it was weak or something if I needed to collaborate.

With writing, I prefer the solo effort, but when a team is working right, as it did on 'The Grifters,' boy, it's exhilarating.

There have been days where I've had two writers' rooms or three writers' rooms going, and you walk back and forth. And then you sort of throw yourself on the sofa, and you go, 'Just talk at me for, like, 20 minutes,' and my brain will catch up with this particular story. But I find that exciting.

We made a decision very early on that George would be the main songwriter because it was very apparent to all of us that he was better at it.

I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

I would never turn down an invitation to co-write another Pee-wee Herman movie!