Clive James Quotes

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

I love writing about young people.

I really feel something's missing if I'm not writing.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

Write what you love and love what you write.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

That's not writing, that's typing

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

Writers turn dreams into print.

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

I wanted to write about the things that I love.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

Music is in everything I do.

Performing is my passion.