Katherine Dunn Quotes

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.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

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

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

I've always liked new writing.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

I enjoy writing.

I wanted to write.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

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