Walter Hill Quotes

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have multiple days off each week. Also, the writing allows me to 'do' movies that I would never do as an actor.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

What I enjoy as entertainment is what I enjoy writing.

I write the books to amuse myself.

I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family and, you know, a few people know my name - that's great.

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.