Corey Taylor Quotes

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

Novel writing is solitary work.

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

I had always secretly wanted to write a novel.

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they were.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

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.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.