James Rollins Quotes

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

I've always liked new writing.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

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.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then putting it down on paper - it was such a pleasure. I read whatever I could get my hands on, from 'Great Expectations' to 'The Thorn Birds.'

I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.