Jim Gaffigan Quotes

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

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.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

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

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

To write, you need to find what you love.

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

I always write about what interests me.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

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

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

I love writing about young people.

I came to writing kind of late. I was an engineer, and the one thing I've learned is that you have to steer a project in the direction of the maximum fun for you. You could say lively energy, or you have to try to be intrigued. Basically, if you were a musician and you were playing joylessly, nobody would want to hear you.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. So I feel like with food, it is a passion of mine. It's where my sensibility rests. I love topics that are universal, and I love stuff that doesn't alienate people.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.