Andrea Barrett Quotes

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

I've always been a writer.

I prefer writing originals.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

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

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I write what I'm interested in.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

I like being a writer.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

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

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

There are millions of people who think that romance isn't real writing. But the only person who can make you real, make your books real, is you.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

I like writing.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.