Gunther Schuller Quotes

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

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

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

I have a lot of books I want to write.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.

I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a promise I made to myself. I think it's important.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

You can't write if you don't read.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

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 spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.