Taika Waititi Quotes

I've always loved to write. I've been writing a lot longer than I've been acting, and I hope to continue to do that and maybe do it a little bit more in terms of, like, writing movies that I could potentially act in.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

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've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.