Stephenie Meyer Quotes

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could do it for more than just fun.

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

Writing gave me a life.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

I would like to write my biography sometime. I love to write. I could write for weeks and weeks, maybe say nothing but just for the writing.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

Of everything with 'The Room' that came out of it, I feel like being able to write, and tap back into that passion, was something I'm really thankful for.

Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.

My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

Write what you love and love what you write.

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

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 started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I write what I'm interested in.