Jeffrey Combs Quotes

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

I wanted to write.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

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

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

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

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.