David Mazzucchelli Quotes

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

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

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 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.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

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.

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 write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

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

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

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.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.