Glen Duncan Quotes

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one I'm most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

I write too much to ever keep everything just for myself.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

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