Quotes About Passion

I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

I have always been a pencil.

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.

Something amazing happens when you tell people you write about sports for a living. You begin to feel like you're in a scene from 'Dawn of the Dead.' The way people change when talking about 'their team' can be nothing short of zombiefication.

I have a good sense of humor. I'm confident, passionate and honest. I'm a people person.

People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

No matter what people say outside of football, we don't work for money, we work for the love of the game and the money is something that follows.

I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say: 'Well we're not really in love but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.