Marcus Sakey Quotes

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.

When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.

You can't write if you don't read.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

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

I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky to be able to do it.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first time - I looked out of the window and thought, 'If this is what books can do, this is what I want to do.'

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.