Helen Skelton Quotes

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

I have a lot of books I want to write.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

I've always been a writer.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

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

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

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

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

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

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.