Writing as a Form of Art Quotes

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family and, you know, a few people know my name - that's great.

Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

I write based on how I feel.

Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have multiple days off each week. Also, the writing allows me to 'do' movies that I would never do as an actor.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.

I enjoy writing but I wouldn't want to do it all the time because generally you are not writing about things you want to write about.