Lewis Grizzard Quotes

I have a lot of books I want to write.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

I love to stay at home and write.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually 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.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.