Simon Toyne Quotes

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

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.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.

I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.