Rachel Dratch Quotes

Writing will remain a passion project.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

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

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.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

I love to write. It's my first love.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

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.

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.