Leigh Hunt Quotes

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.

You become a great writer by writing.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

To write, you need to find what you love.

I love to write.