Mary Stuart Masterson Quotes

Writing will remain a passion project.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

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.

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I've always been writing.

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I've always loved writing.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

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 can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

I wanted to write.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

I just like to write and then perform.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.