Brad Thor Quotes

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

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

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

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.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

Sometimes you don't really know what you're going to write about. I mean, there's times where you get into a writing room and it's a complete flop. And then there's times where you get to a writing room and you're like, 'Oh, I'm just on a roll.'

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

There is a plethora of topics to explore. I sometimes think I may never live long enough to explore all of the unique story lines I have either in my head or waiting in my computer file.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.

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.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.