Carrie Fisher Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of a boy's club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal - talk about your testosterone trio!

  Carrie Fisher

  Nice, Mean, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.

  Carrie Fisher

  Writing, White, Wife

• I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.

  Carrie Fisher

  Grateful, Writing, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

  Carrie Fisher

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

  Carrie Fisher

  Writing, Community, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

  Carrie Fisher

  Writing, Trying, May

• What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.

  Carrie Fisher

  Character, Writing, Creating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Reading, Book

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

• You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.

  Carrie Fisher

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

  Carrie Fisher

  Powerful, Writing, Sometimes

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

• I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's how people write. So that's why I think it's sometimes easier for me to write for actors 'cause I know what's frustrating about, you know, sentences that come out just perfect. Well, who talks like that? And who of us don't overlap each other? Except on the radio, hopefully.

  Carrie Fisher

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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