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When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.