John Edgar Wideman Quotes

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

My first love is literature.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

People do write books.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

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

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

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.