Brian Jacques Quotes

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.

I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or whatever, then my ambition changed, and I thought, 'Now I want to be a good writer.' And that became my ambition.

I never set out to be a published writer.

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.

No matter what your dream is, you can make that dream a reality, ... If you dream about being a millionaire, you can be that. All you have to do is study and be smart.

If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in the publishing world take a chance on you? I don't believe that you need an MFA to be a writer, but I do think you need to take some good workshops.

Don't chase the paper, chase the dream.

The world is not ruled by those who have money, but those who have dreams.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, 'Hang on... if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.' That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

I think my best years are ahead of me and that's exciting.

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.