Phil Klay Quotes

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

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

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

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

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Writers are so important.

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

I like to write books and cause trouble.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

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.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

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

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.