Samantha Shannon Quotes

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

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

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

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

I've been writing since I was 12 years old.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

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

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.