J. K. Rowling Quotes

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

I just write what I want to write.

I write what I want to write.

I don't write to a genre.

I feel you should be able to write about whatever you want.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I write what I write.

My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.

I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.

I think the fundamental thing about writing fiction is that you write what interests you and what inspires you. It can't be forced. I see no need to write about anything else or any other type of world.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

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

I write what I'm interested in.

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.