Maurissa Tancharoen Quotes

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

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.

I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

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.

There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck.

I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

I wanted to write.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.