Kurt Busiek Quotes

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build a story around them.

I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

As soon as I could write, I was writing stories.

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.

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

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I love writing different things.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I know I can always draw, but I actually love the writing the most.

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.