Dirk Benedict Quotes

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I prefer writing originals.

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.

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

You can only write your own vision.

I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'

My big dream has always been to write and create my own things.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.