David Thewlis Quotes

I never thought I'd write one book, let alone three. I'm absolutely delighted and every night, thank the good lord for spell check.

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.

The story wrote quickly. I called it 'Where You're From,' and I sent it out, as I had numerous other stories over the years. Except this time I got a letter back saying that it would be published. Someone out there had liked the story. I was thirty-one years old.

I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.

I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder.

When I was a kid it was my dream to play for Leeds, and I did that.

'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

It's a privilege and honor to write and star in my own comic. I can officially cross that off the bucket list!

I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe 'Durable Goods' is the best thing I've written.

To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived.

I can't believe I actually wrote a book.

Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.