Rachel Ward Quotes

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

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

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.

Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.

I'm sure every author has their own process.

I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

A writer, by definition, is pathetic.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.