Ray Bradbury Quotes

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

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

Writing is my No. 1 passion.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

I love writing different things.

I don't really love writing. I don't love the feeling of starting a new file. But I love the feeling of overcoming and accomplishing.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

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

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.

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

I've always been a writer.

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

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

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 love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

I love to write.

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.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

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.

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.