Dan Aykroyd Quotes

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

I can write a book in probably three months.

You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

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

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it's a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page, and I wait to see what they do and say while I'm writing them.

Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

I learned long ago, back with 'Lover Revealed,' that my job is to sit at the computer, shut up and type. Otherwise? The pictures and the voices go away!

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.