Jack Canfield Quotes

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.

It's that drama that drives authors, you know.

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem to barrel through an interview like this, so I imagine I have a long way to go.

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

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

When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel.

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.

I spend about a year between novels.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

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 find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?