Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.

It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you enjoy working with.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.

Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.