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

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

What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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 would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

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

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

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

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

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

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.