Christine Elise Quotes

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

I'm not an actress. I'm a writer.

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

I want to write, act, and direct!

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.