Marilyn Hacker Quotes

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

My goal is to write one book of fiction, and that's all I want to do. It takes so much time, and I don't really have enough time. But I admire writers so much.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.