P. C. Cast Quotes

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

When I get moved to write a story, I don't question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ignore the voices that are chattering away at me: 'You can't do that', 'You shouldn't do that'. I just sort of leap and take a chance and go for it.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.