Peter Davison Quotes

I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've always loved poetry, I've always loved writing poetry and I've always loved sharing poetry. I've also always known that I wanted that to somehow be a very large part of my life and I'm very fortunate that it's such a large part of my life.

The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.

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 think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

My first love is literature.

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

People do write books.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

I write novels and other things.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn.

I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.

I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.