Quotes by welsh authors

I need to be in charge, and that comes from when I was growing up and money was always an issue. I didn't want to feel the fear of poverty again, and I suppose, in that way, I qualify as Thatcher Youth. Abi Morgan

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I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up. Abi Morgan

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I think film and television - particularly film - you are very isolated as a writer. If you're lucky, you have a good relationship with the director. Then you do make that development and come on set and be part of something. But ultimately, your work is kind of done by the time you come on set. Abi Morgan

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I get the 'Guardian' delivered every day and read it very quickly. I like it for both the TV and theatre reviews and because it's very accessible. At the weekend, I get the 'Observer' because I love the food supplement, Observer Food Monthly, and the style section. And I can't resist the News of the World. Abi Morgan

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I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book. Abi Morgan

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Usually when I write a movie, I'm lucky if I get one good actress. Abi Morgan

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'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.' Abi Morgan

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The joy for me as a writer is that, despite the fact I spend most of my life on my own in a room eating too much chocolate and drinking too much tea, eventually they let me out into the world. Abi Morgan

'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men. Abi Morgan

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You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them. Abi Morgan

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As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes. Abi Morgan

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It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've got something completely wrong, and it's good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while. Abi Morgan

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I used to believe in God as a child. God, for me, was linked with hope. Abi Morgan

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The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself. Abi Morgan

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I'd love to know what the future looks like. Abi Morgan

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When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money. Abi Morgan

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All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night. Abi Morgan

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Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page. Abi Morgan

When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist. Abi Morgan

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