Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread, simply because he makes me see the possibilities and makes me feel like writing. There are certain writers who put you in the mood to write. In the way a whiff of a cigar will bring back memories of a ballgame on a Saturday afternoon, reading Salinger makes me want to get to the typewriter.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I always love writing about children.

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

It's a wonderful thing to write for children.

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

I'm not the next J. K. Rowling. We've got one already. It's flattering to be compared to her. I like her books and loved the first three particularly, but apart from the fact that they've got young boys as heroes, they're very different.

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

I always write about what interests me.