Chris Bohjalian Quotes

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 think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

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.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

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.

The No. 1 thing is to write the book that you love and then hope that it finds an audience with the same taste as you. I think I've done that, and that's lucky.

Over time, I decided to take up only those stories I love.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.

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

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

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

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

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

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.