David Frum Quotes

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?

As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I never intended to become a writer.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

I've only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I've written all of them.