Tamora Pierce Quotes

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

Everyone writes differently. I hope to get people energized so they'll want to rush home to write.

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?

I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the energy out of my writing. When I begin to work, it's like a soda bottle that's been jostled before it's opened. There's a lot of pent up energy in there. I have to let it out slowly, carefully, so that I can turn it into a written work.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I enjoy writing.

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

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.

'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.

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

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

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

As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.

I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.

My books are written from the heart, to entertain: they're books I would like to read. Because of that, when I meet people who like them, we have so much to talk about!

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

When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.

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

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.