William Joyce Quotes

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

To write, you need to find what you love.

If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

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.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

Writing was, is, and will always be my favorite job.

It's easy to get discouraged; just keep writing because you love to do it, and you'll keep improving.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

My whole thing is that I make music regardless. Regardless of everything around me, I'll always make music.