A Quote by Frank McCourt

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

Frank McCourt

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Interested More Performing Than Writing

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Frank McCourt
Irish - Author
August 19, 1930 - July 19, 2009

I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.

Flannery O'Connor

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

Katy Lederer

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

Kinky Friedman

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.

Jay McInerney

There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that.

R. C. Sproul

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

Robert Barry

I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden.

Susan Sontag

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

Karen Joy Fowler

I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.

Alice Mattison

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [...] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.

Fran Lebowitz

I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

Samantha Shannon

My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make the transition from verbally telling stories to writing them. You'll note I don't dwell on descriptions in my writing, because I'm far more interested in telling the story. There are many better writers in this world, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more passionate about stories than I am.

Debbie Macomber

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

Linda Sue Park

With virtual reality, I'm not interested in the novelty factor. I'm interested in the foundations for a medium that could be more powerful than cinema, than theatre, than literature, than any other medium we've had before to connect one human being to another.

Chris Milk

I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.

Robert J. Sawyer

It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.

Sasa Stanisic

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