Anna Todd Quotes

I wanted to write.

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.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

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

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

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.

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.

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.

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

I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

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

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

I always write the pieces I want to write.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

Every single day, I write something new and record it.

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

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

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.