Lee Child Quotes

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

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

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

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'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

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

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

I had always secretly wanted to write a novel.

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time because you know what you're doing. With writing a novel, you have to figure it out each time. Each time you start over, you just have the language and the idea and the hope.

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

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

I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.