Antonio Munoz Molina Quotes

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

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

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.

I always write like the devil's behind me with a whip. I'm going to write because I like it. Then I'm going to write another.

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.

Write the best book you can, the one that demands to be written, no matter what genre it is. Even a trend the trades tell you has gone stale can be revitalized by a superb piece of writing. It'll never be revitalized by someone jumping on a trend bandwagon.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

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

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

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

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

You can't sit down and decide what you want to write about.

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

I write what's given me to write.

I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.