Max Lucado Quotes

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've worked in. Having said that, it's fiction and has a lot to do with my imagination and creativity.

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved obviously and openly fit that description: They came with maps and glossaries and timelines - books like Lord Of The Rings, Dune, The Chronicles Of Narnia. I imagined that's what being a writer was: You invented a world, and you did it in a very detailed way, and you told stories that were set in that world.

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

I always write a story in one sitting.

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain kind of music that I start hearing. It's the music of the language, but it's also the music of the story. I have to live with that music for a while before I can put any words on the page. I think that's because I have to get my body as much as my mind accustomed to the music of writing that particular book. It really is a mysterious feeling.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.