Shiloh Walker Quotes

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.

I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.

I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.