Tom Kitt Quotes

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

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.

That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.

Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

I can never say that I don't want to work anymore. That would be an absolute lie because I enjoy, I take delight in, working in films because I feel it's an honour, you know, to entertain people, to regale audiences.

I want to be something that the listeners might not know that they needed but that I fill a lane and that they enjoy it for a while.

I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think.