Quentin Tarantino Quotes

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

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

I'm constantly creating and writing.

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

It's that drama that drives authors, you know.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.

There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you get to choose your children. You can make the decision to write, but beyond that, at the end of the day, it's going to come out how it's going to come out.

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

The best way to learn to write is to read in the genre you might be interested in; then, you need to actually sit down and write. In a lot of cases, the first book you write will not get published. Do not get hung up on that. Start a second book.

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

I don't have a trunk of manuscripts.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.