Chrissy Costanza Quotes

The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.

Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working in a book warehouse and was assigned to the third floor where all the children's books were. For four and a half years, I spent all day, every day around children's books, and it wasn't long before I fell in love with them.

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

Whenever the kindly uncles and aunts came over for a cup of tea and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was always the same: an 'authoress', and illustrate my own books.

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.