H. G. Bissinger Quotes

It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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 knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

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

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 always knew I wanted to be a writer.

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

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

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

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.