Norman Spinrad Quotes

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

I want to be a writer someday.

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.

I usually just do, like, studio jobs, re-writes and stuff.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

I love writing. I really look up to Lena Dunham, who writes and directs her show. That's something I might want to do when I'm older.

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.