Russell Lynes Quotes

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

I've been writing since I was really young.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

I started writing stories as a child.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.

Writing is my No. 1 passion.

I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

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.