Glenn Howerton Quotes

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

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

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

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. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I write what I'm interested in.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.'

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.