Sarah Waters Quotes

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

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

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

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

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

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

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

I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

I've always been a writer.

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard.