Philip Roth Quotes

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

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

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

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I wanted to write.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

I write, I write, I always write.

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

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

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