Franka Potente Quotes

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

I have been rejected 120 times, probably because I didn't write the right book.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

The only constant that I have in my life is that I start whatever I do with my Total Gym, because I believe it helps keep me from getting injured.

Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my every day.

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.

I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent, horror fiction.

I want to do a travel book.

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.

I am actually hoping to write a series of books! The Amazon was the first one I got finished and have managed to get published! I have plenty more ideas up my sleeve!

My daughter wrote a book called 'Kelly Tough' when she was 19 years old. It's a must-read.

A few of Ellison's short stories from the 1940s and 1950s were widely anthologized over the years. After a while, it became generally known that he was at work on another novel. Though he remained aware ever afterward of the authority 'Invisible Man' gave to him, no second novel followed his brilliant debut in 1952.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.