Jack Canfield Quotes

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

You become a great writer by writing.

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

I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

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

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I want to write books.

I'm constantly creating and writing.