When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
I only want to write. I don't care about directing, really. I've tried it, and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.
I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.
As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.
I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being an editor than a writer, and I longed to write again.
I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.
I must never write when I do not want to write.
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.
I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
I know I am eventually going to want to write or produce.
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.
