Bernard Cornwell Quotes

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

I prefer writing originals.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

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

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

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

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.

What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then putting it down on paper - it was such a pleasure. I read whatever I could get my hands on, from 'Great Expectations' to 'The Thorn Birds.'

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

As soon as I could write, I was writing stories.

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.

For the last few years, I've enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I've grown up, I've realised how much I enjoy escaping into a world that I've created myself. So I've kept that up as a hobby.

I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.