Michael Arrington Quotes

Write what you love and love what you write.

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.

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

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.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

I love to write.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

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 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.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

It's easy to get discouraged; just keep writing because you love to do it, and you'll keep improving.

I really do love working. There's no day where I don't want to write.

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

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing — the characters, the story, the words, the themes — and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart.