Jack L. Chalker Quotes

I want to write books.

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

You become a great writer by writing.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

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

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

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 think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

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

People do write books.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

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

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.