John Larroquette Quotes

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

I've learned never to try and force words to come.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

I write constantly about everything.

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.

When I write I find a quiet place.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.