John Branch Quotes

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.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

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.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

Success is the sweetest revenge.

Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray to that. But I do okay, in that regard. I mean, my stuff gets bought, so it's all right.

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

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.