Writing for Fun Quotes

Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Don't write for money.

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

I enjoy writing but I wouldn't want to do it all the time because generally you are not writing about things you want to write about.

I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.

I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.

I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.

It doesn't cost me anything to write some fun stuff for folks, because I just really enjoy a challenge.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.