Jim Piddock Quotes

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

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

I write constantly about everything.

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 had novels to write, so I wrote them.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.

I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I've always liked new writing.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.