Dave Morris Quotes

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

Blank paper has always inspired me.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

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

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.

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.

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

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

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.