Tom King Quotes

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

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

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.