James Herriot Quotes

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.

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

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.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

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 always write the pieces I want to write.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I just write what I want to write.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I write what I'm interested in.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

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

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

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'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

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

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