Nestor Carbonell Quotes

For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When you recognize good writing, and you're lucky enough to get it, like with 'Lost,' that's what I follow.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

Generally, screenplays suck.

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

I've always liked new writing.

I write novels and other things.

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

You have to go where the good writing is.

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.

'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.

For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

To be able to create a character and tell a story is a crazy way to make a living. I feel so lucky to be able to do this.