Tommy Wiseau Quotes

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

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

People do write books.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break your heart if it turns out you never got around to it? If you wake up one day at eighty, will you feel nonchalant that something always took precedence over a daily commitment to discovering your creative spirit? If not--if this very thought fills you with regret--then what are you waiting for?

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

Well - when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures - all these little stars That shake out of my cloak - I must save those To use for asterisks.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.