Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.

I just like to write and then perform.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.

The best part of our lives is just every day when we are writing.

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have multiple days off each week. Also, the writing allows me to 'do' movies that I would never do as an actor.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.