Jill Davis Quotes

I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories.

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to everything from 'Future Science Fiction' to 'The Sewanee Review.'

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of any deal that's better for me, and I'm always so grateful that readers have indulged me as I argue with myself in my stories.

I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story.

The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it. I went back to school, and then I started writing nonfiction kind of by accident.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.

I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.