Catherine Ryan Hyde Quotes

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for your own freedom. To lose your inhibition to delve deep into your memory and experiences and life and then to find the prose that will persuade the reader.

I write my books never thinking of an actor.

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.

I don't like to try to put, like, 'Let's do this type of record,' 'cause it never turns out that way anyways.

Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.

'Gossip Girl' was an adaptation that, although very different from a Marvel property, had a vocal fan base. On that show, we started off very nervous about making any changes from the book. As we got our sea legs underneath us, we became more bold.

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

I love to do the stream-of-consciousness thing, because it's exciting for me, and I like to think it's exciting for the audience, too.

I don't consciously think of any certain direction when I'm writing. I only try not to be repetitive or redundant.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

I feel you lose your audience when you make movies for others and not for yourself or your people.

No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.

But with 'Newsrevue' I started doing some characters, and I just loved how you were in control. You could write something that day and go and do it that night, rather than waiting for a job that involves other people. So I did character stand-up, and then proper stand-up, and I loved it; I got addicted.

You can't think of a franchise from day one. It starts with the audience accepting the idea.

I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

Each night, we try something new, play different songs, see what works, what goes down well, mix it up a bit until we find the right mix.

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.