Owen King Quotes

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

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.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

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

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

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

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.