Zal Batmanglij Quotes

I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

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

I just write what I want to write.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

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

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

I think the fundamental thing about writing fiction is that you write what interests you and what inspires you. It can't be forced. I see no need to write about anything else or any other type of world.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the news. I'm just reporting it for myself.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.