Kerry Greenwood Quotes

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

I wrote 'Show Me the Way' in the morning and wrote 'Baby, I Love Your Way' in the afternoon of the same day. I've been trying to figure out what I ate for breakfast that morning ever since!

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

It's just that I can write something nice is what motivates me.

Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.