Kate Christensen Quotes

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

And, of course, there were some times when I had writer's block and I had a hard time figuring out how to express what I wanted to express.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

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.

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.