Norton Juster Quotes

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

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

I write what's given me to write.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you can't not write. The rest is show-business. I can't state that too strongly. Just write - worry about the rest of it later, if you worry at all. What matters is what happens to you while you're writing the story, the poem, the play. The rest is show-business.

Writing will remain a passion project.

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.

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

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

I enjoy writing.

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