Fiona McIntosh Quotes

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but let's say Woody Allen. But the more I've written, the more I've found that there is a deep well in me somewhere that wants to express things that I'm not going to find unless I write them myself.

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.

A writer, by definition, is pathetic.

I've been writing for a long time.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before it's done that it's going to be done.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

I always enjoyed writing.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.