Gretchen Rubin Quotes

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day.

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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 sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

There is a plethora of topics to explore. I sometimes think I may never live long enough to explore all of the unique story lines I have either in my head or waiting in my computer file.