Morley Callaghan Quotes

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.

I write my books never thinking of an actor.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

I write novels and other things.

I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.