Robert Osborne Quotes

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

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.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

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.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

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've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

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.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

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

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.