Christian Bale Quotes

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

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

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.

I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time I wrote three novels - all of which were extraordinarily poor. I decided after that to go and get my MFA.

I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer.

Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—I’m a liar, in fact. That means I’m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready to show it. It keeps me humble and also makes me work towards a goal.

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.