Kevin Dillon Quotes

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to 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.

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

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

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.

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

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've always liked new writing.

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

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

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

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.