Chris Adrian Quotes

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose.

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 love TV, I love writing, but I love movements more.

I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.

I have a T-shirt that says, 'Ball is life.' My wife says 'That's an understatement for you.'

Music was my first love; acting was something that wasn't important to me early on.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

Write what you love and love what you write.

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

The only reason to write is from love.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have.

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me.

Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.