Charles Forsman Quotes

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.

I had no idea what to expect when I first started writing.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem to barrel through an interview like this, so I imagine I have a long way to go.

It was my great problem to solve: how to write a book, you know. And after you write one, you have to write another to prove to yourself you can do it again.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

I want to have new challenges and write new crazy books because I think it makes me a better writer to be insecure and try new things.

I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.