Paul G. Tremblay Quotes

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 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.

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

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

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

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.

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.

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?'

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I just, I kept it up, it was sort of fantasy, it was part soap opera. It was utterly dreadful, but that's how I got hooked.

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.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.