Caroline B. Cooney Quotes

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

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

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

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.

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Over time, I decided to take up only those stories I love.