Nick Earls Quotes

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

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

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

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.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

A good book is a good book. End of story.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.