Julie Kagawa Quotes

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 write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

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

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

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

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.