Robert Sheehan Quotes

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.

I need to write to be happy.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.

I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the only one reading my work. It has been a way for me to unlock my imagination. That's when the world becomes yours, after all.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.

I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.