Graham Moore Quotes

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

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'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

I've always been a writer.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

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

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

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

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

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

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

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

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 started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

Novel writing is solitary work.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

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

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

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.