Barbara Taylor Bradford Quotes

A lot of writing is thinking.

I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.

I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a lot of the work gets done when you have something on your mind while you're doing many other things.

When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.

Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

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.

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.'

Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.