Alexander Chee Quotes

Even when I'm travelling - which is when I do most of my writing - I have a little portable keyboard.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

All the farmers in this area have electricity, even in their barns. There have been times where the writing of a book is just as important as the milking of a cow.

I travel a lot with work... to and from Cornwall and Bristol, so I find myself on lots of trains.

No matter what I'm doing for myself or someone else, I'm constantly writing and working on other people's albums.

Allan Cubitt has written exceptional material, and I feel very privileged to be working with him and the very talented cast.

After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing for other people's bands, working in coffee shops all over town.

I'm pretty much writing all the time.

I'd waste a holiday trying to set a story in this new place I'd visit, whereas I would never write a story about Indianapolis.

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

When I get back from a mid-morning stroll, I'll do some writing then I'll typically spend the day testing new recipes.

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.

I've found, as I've gotten older, it's really difficult to write on the road. There are so many distractions, so many people in and out of the bus. It's really difficult to do. So I just keep a notebook with me, and I jot down ideas. I schedule appointments to write.

I spend 99 percent of my time writing.

The worst day of writing is still better than the best day of telemarketing.

Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.

I got into writing short stories and blogs while on the road.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.

In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will give me enough money not only to live a comfortable existence, but also to buy many, many new pairs of shoes.

I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort of buzz about something I did and sort of saying, "Get that guy that writes the crazy stuff in here."