Quentin Crisp Quotes

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.

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

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

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 write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

All I wanted to do was to follow my passion and tell a good story.

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

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

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.