Abby Elliott Quotes

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that's radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I'm still just playing a good bit.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

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

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

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

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

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 think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

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

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?