Robert Cormier Quotes

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I've always been writing.

I've always been a writer.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

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

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.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

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.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

I write every night.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.