Stephen Schwartz Quotes

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.

To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

One has to be ambitious to start writing.

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out in front of readers and hoping they'll love it too.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Writing will remain a passion project.

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.

My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

I enjoy writing.