Parker Posey Quotes

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

What I enjoy as entertainment is what I enjoy writing.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing words for myself to say.

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels.

That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience.

it is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ... Pour out the dull things on paper too-you can tear them up afterward-for only then do the bright ones come. If you hold back the dull things, you are certain to hold back what is clear and beautiful and true and lively.