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Steven Moffat quotes about writing

Scottish Writer November 18, 1961

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This was supposed to be yesterday. I was sitting on the Cardiff/London train, supposedly about to write this very column, and realising something quite terrible. My head was entirely empty. A vast echoing void. Bigger on the inside, but with nothing in it. You could drop a pebble in my brain and wait for an hour to hear it land. No actually, you couldn't - that would be aggressive and unhelpful, so keep your damn pebbles to yourself. Steven Moffat
When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women. Steven Moffat
You're guaranteed to be lucky several times in your life-it's what you do with it. Young writers spend all their time worrying, in a way that David Gerrold did not and I did not. How do they get to meet the right people? How do they get to the right parties? If only someone would read my script... Forget all that. All these things are easy and will happen. The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's fucking easy. The difficult bit is writing... Steven Moffat
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it. Steven Moffat
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer. Steven Moffat
I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs. Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat quote: "I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing..."
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone. Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat quote: "I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch."
I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch. Steven Moffat
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line. Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat quote: "Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as..."
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. Steven Moffat

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