Joshua Ferris Quotes

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

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

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

I want to write books.

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

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

People do write books.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

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

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

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

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

I want to be an author.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.