Caroline Leavitt Quotes

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.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

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.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

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 was one of those kids who always wrote.

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I enjoy talking to groups who are interested in the writing process or the industry. I never teach - because truthfully, I don't know how it all works; it just does. Sort of magic-like. But I love to share my experiences and perspectives.

I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

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

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.

I loved the writing process. I loved it.