Joss Whedon Quotes

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade.

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it