Susan Isaacs Quotes

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

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

When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and to make it potentially about their experiences, what they know, a city that they have perhaps seen on television.

I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

I've been writing since I was 19.

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I wrote stories. From the time I was 5 or 6 until I was 25. And I read a lot of stories during that time.

I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.

I never took creative writing.

I've been writing for a long time.

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.

I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

I never took a writing class.

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

I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us;' other stories that didn't make it into the collection; and several failed novel openings.