James Rollins Quotes

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I see myself as a story teller.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely.

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

In the world of book writing, there's a few people, maybe, where you have close relationships. In TV, there are so many more relationships, and they're all so critical.

I'm not Mr. Hollywood. I'm a book writer.

Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, 'So when did you start and why? What about your parents?' I say to them, 'Please, have you heard of the word 'Google?'