Emma Tennant Quotes

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.

My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.

When you look at my pictures, you are seeing my life.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

You've got to live life to write a book about it.

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

I believe in my writing.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.