Steven Moffat Writing Quotations

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

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.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch,

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

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.

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.

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.

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.