Joachim de Posada Quotes

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

I never thought of myself as a writer.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

I write what's given me to write.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.