C. S. Lewis Quotes

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

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.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

I like being a writer.

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.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

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

When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.

Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.

I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.

There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting down one day and writing one. You have to learn how to captivate a reader. Right? And I don't mean you have to go to school for it. But if you're - if you pay attention, you can learn it by reading books. And so I feel like I learned a lot by reading books.