Jennifer Fallon Quotes

I always write the pieces I want to write.

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.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

I write what I'm interested in.

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

I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.

I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.

I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.

I prefer writing originals.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

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

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'

I just write what I want to write.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

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

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

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