Sandra Brown Quotes

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I love to write. It's my first love.

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

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.