Peter Morgan Quotes

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

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

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard Ramirez or whatever comes to mind. I just write.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.