Quotes About Writing

I love writing and making films. What started as a hobby ultimately turned into my profession.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.

Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.

2021 is my 40th year working in the industry and I can't think of a better way to celebrate than directing 'Holding.' It's a beautiful piece of writing with a great story and fantastic, full-bodied characters.

Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my life would feel as if it had a big hole if I took those away.

I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.

I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.

It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writers - your series goes eight, 10 seasons, you're set for life.

I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

The strange dilemma of the 'ethnic-fiction' writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that's far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear.

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

I've been writing ever since I was a child: I used to give my English teacher extra homework and say, 'What do you think of it? Give me a mark.'

I really don't like writing lyrics. It's totally a mandatory thing. It's like homework.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

Honestly, all of 'Breaking Bad' was the best television experience of my entire life - the writing, the crew, the other actors.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.