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I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.

I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends.

Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.