Todd Solondz Quotes

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

I write what's given me to write.

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's a good mix. It provides balance.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.