Salman Rushdie Quotes

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

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'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

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

If not for my mom, I wouldn't be a writer today. When I was a little girl, I rarely saw her without a book in her hand.