John David Washington Quotes

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

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

I put my soul into every book I write.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm only kind of interested in to support my one true love, which is prose fiction.' I think you have to love what you're doing to do it well.

I wanted to be a story teller so badly.

For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just part of my life's journey, but creativity is my actual life's work.

I loved the writing process. I loved it.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.