Holly Lisle Quotes

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Writing gave me a life.

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

I feel lucky that my career so far has included books for adults and books for kids. They're equally important to me, and I hope I get to continue writing both.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

I greatly enjoyed working as a freelance journalist, because it gets you out of the house, and it gets you talking to people, but it wasn't satisfying all of my cravings, and I knew that I needed to work with the other side of my brain - the darker, murkier side!

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.