Jesse Kellerman Quotes

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

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.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

Writing gave me a life.

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's only something that I felt compelled to do, and it began to evolve.

Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.