James Lipton Quotes

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

I'm not thinking when I'm writing, 'How's this going to read?' Or, 'What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?' The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it's deeply satisfying. It's selfish!

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.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

I enjoy writing.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

My art completes my life.

I love all the characters I write.

I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.