Sarah Mlynowski Quotes

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

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.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

All experience helps when you write.

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

I feel lucky that my career so far has included books for adults and books for kids. They're equally important to me, and I hope I get to continue writing both.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

I've been writing since I was 19.

I've been writing for a long time.

I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.