Margaret Stohl Quotes

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

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

I've been writing since I was 19.

I've been writing for a long time.

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.'

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

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

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

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.

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.