Iris Chang Quotes

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

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

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

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

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.