Grant Heslov Quotes

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!

I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle.

There's so many ways to be passionate about what you do.

At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.

This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

Journalism doesn't have to be your first love... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going... it helps if you love it.

In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

I will work as hard as I do because I love it.

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

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

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 always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.