Rob Thomas Quotes

My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.

When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.

After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, 'Look, I'm not just writing about my life, I'm a real author.'

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

I want to be an author.

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.