Richard Paul Evans Quotes

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious intricacies, to be what you were, what you are, what you will be, and what everyone else is or was or will be, too.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of any deal that's better for me, and I'm always so grateful that readers have indulged me as I argue with myself in my stories.

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.