Jill Paton Walsh Quotes

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I write novels and other things.

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.

When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.

I want to write books.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

I prefer writing originals.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.