Michael Easton Quotes

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

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

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.

The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.

I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.

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

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

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.