Ernest Gaines Quotes

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 don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

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

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

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

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

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

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

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 write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'