Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.

I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

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 think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

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

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Writing is my No. 1 passion.

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.