Dick Dale Quotes

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.