Divya Dutta Quotes

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent.

The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is much harder to teach somebody. It's like music. You can either play it or you can't. If you can't play music and you really struggle and work hard, you can learn, but you have to have some inner gift to take it to the next level.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

I've always loved writing.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

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

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

I just like to write and then perform.

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.