Lawrence Kasdan Quotes

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.