Joss Whedon Quotes

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

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.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.

It's that drama that drives authors, you know.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

Writing has never been that simple for me.

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.