Greta Gerwig Quotes

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

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

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

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 think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

When I write, I imagine places more than people.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I'm constantly creating and writing.

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.

Write what you love and love what you write.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text one way or another.

I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

I always write a story in one sitting.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.

I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to someone, especially if you are writing to a stranger, you write much more spontaneously, and it's freer.

I got into writing short stories and blogs while on the road.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.