Jack London Quotes

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.

If you spend your days doing what you love, it is impossible to fail. So I go about my days trying to bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. And then everyone gets furious about it. And then I sit back and say, 'I did that!'

Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for debate, and, mostly, I fail. But I try. I like to make things. It's a way to stay busy during one's ephemeral and confusing life.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it's one of my biggest personal achievements - on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company.

I always wrote, you know, but it was just this thing I did; what I intended was to become a terribly famous artist, perhaps with a stopover as a singer.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

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

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort

I write the books to amuse myself.

Working with language requires beauty for me.

Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.

You create content because you love it, not necessarily because you're looking for fame or know what it will potentially lead to.

You spend a lot of time studying, and you want to do something with that. Something that's tangible, like creating a show, writing a screenplay, making a difference.

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.