David Grann Quotes

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the same book. The Book I Should Write should be realistic, since I studied English Lit. It should be cultural. It should reflect where I am today. The Book I Wanted to Write would probably include flying women, magic, and all of that.

Writing gave me a life.

I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I always did. And then I started to really enjoy it.

Writing gave me the world.