Iain Sinclair Quotes

John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

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.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

I always write the pieces I want to write.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I wanted to write.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I write - and then I write some more.

I got into writing in college... well, in elementary school. But in college, I started writing seriously and had a professor who read my writing and gave me permission to pursue that as a real effort and time-consuming effort.