author's passion Quotes

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so strong is my feeling for my subject. On occasion, I have been so moved by the events I have been describing that I have felt like crying.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

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?

You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.

My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I pick my pen up and I cannot put my pen down.

Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides if she thinks it will be interesting to children as well. If I have no great interest in the subject, I find the work to be terribly boring. And if I find the person interesting, I love the research part and, by extension, the writing as well.

Writing the 'Crossfire' series is deeply personal for me, and I love the whole process of it.

When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!

If you wanna write non-fiction you have to be interested in the world.

I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

I have this horrible weakness. I fall in love with my characters. 'Suspect' started as a one-shot, but I just love Maggie so much, and I love Maggie and Scott and what they have going.

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.

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.