Lewis Grizzard Quotes

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

You have to write what you know.

I wanted to write.

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.

I love to write.

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.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

I'm open to writing just about anything. I love writing the books that I write. They do tend to be on dark subjects, but I don't think of myself necessarily as a dark-humored person. I like having a lot of fun.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to.

I like writing.

I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.

A writer is what I am.

Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

I prefer writing originals.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.