John Eaton Quotes

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

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

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

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

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

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them.

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.

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.

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

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I enjoy talking to groups who are interested in the writing process or the industry. I never teach - because truthfully, I don't know how it all works; it just does. Sort of magic-like. But I love to share my experiences and perspectives.

Novel writing is solitary work.

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.

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

I write what's given me to write.

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.