Garry Marshall Quotes

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

There is a certain joy in telling a story, and it gives me great pleasure to be a part of the process from scratch and say it the way I want to.

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.

No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.

I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.

Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I feel uninhibited when I'm writing.

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.