Jane Goldman Quotes

I put my soul into every book I write.

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.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I've always been a writer.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing 'Upstream Color' where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn't think of anything else. I was absolutely secure in this story in the way I'm rarely secure about anything else in my life.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.

Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

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

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.

It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject them if they are not up to their standards.

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

Everything I involve myself with is an extension of me, so I take everything super seriously, from the music to the shows. That's the only way to do it.

Over time, I decided to take up only those stories I love.