Tom Stoppard Quotes

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I'm excited to bring my characters to life in book form.

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

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.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

I want to be an author.

A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, 'Hang on... if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.' That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.