Josh Lawson Quotes

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that other people get something out of them, enjoy them, see the world differently when they're done.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

I like working with people on their first movies. I think that you never get that level of effort again. And I think that most people only have a couple of amazing stories from their lives, so you're getting the best of them.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

I love the idea of directing, I'm not confident enough, but I'm more confident in, well, I'd love to write. I've sort of written my whole life and I think I have a knack for it, so I'd like to write something and see what people think and that would be my first step to directing.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics of all time. I think in the past, he was shying away from writing his own stuff, because there is a lot of pressure when you star in something that you write.