Morris West Quotes

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

Every single day, I write something new and record it.

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I really write for people.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

I write - and then I write some more.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong.

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

I write what I'm interested in.

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.