S. E. Hinton Quotes

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I wanted to write.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

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.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

For the last few years, I've enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I've grown up, I've realised how much I enjoy escaping into a world that I've created myself. So I've kept that up as a hobby.

I just wrote what I wanted to be reading.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

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

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I love to write. It's my first love.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.