Ruskin Bond Quotes

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

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

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I wanted to write.

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

I've been writing since I was 12 years old.

I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.

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

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

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

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

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've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

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

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?