Bonnie Hunt Quotes

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.

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.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

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.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

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'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

You've probably never thought about it before unless you happen to write for a living, but professional writers are doomed to spend most of their waking hours sitting by themselves at a desk, staring at a blank computer screen and waiting for lightning to strike.

Writers are nerds.