John C. Hawkes Quotes

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

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.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

I've always been a writer.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

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

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

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.

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

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

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.