Brian McKnight Quotes

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

I love writing different things.

The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.

Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.