Bob Considine Quotes

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

To write, you need to find what you love.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

It's very joyful to be in a productive, creative mood, but I find a lot of joy in learning and being told stories.

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.