Beth Gutcheon Quotes

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

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 love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

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

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

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

I enjoy talking to groups who are interested in the writing process or the industry. I never teach - because truthfully, I don't know how it all works; it just does. Sort of magic-like. But I love to share my experiences and perspectives.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

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

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

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.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.