Lee Mack Quotes

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

I write what I'm interested in.

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's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

I prefer writing originals.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

I write what's given me to write.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

I always write about what interests me.

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.