Susanna Fogel Quotes

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I wanted to write.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'

At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.'

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was necessary for, that no-one else could write.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

Over time, I decided to take up only those stories I love.