Lily Rabe Quotes

I've always liked new writing.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

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 enjoy writing.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

I really write for people.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.