Simon Kinberg Quotes

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

I loved the writing process. I loved it.

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.'

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

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 started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.

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.