Gerald Scarfe Quotes

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

I spend about a year between novels.

People do write books.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

I write novels and other things.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

I want to be an author.

Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

I want to write books.

I never thought I'd write one book, let alone three. I'm absolutely delighted and every night, thank the good lord for spell check.