F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

You become a great writer by writing.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

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

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

I started writing stories as a child.

Books, the children of the brain.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

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 could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

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.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

I suck at titles.