Christopher Darden Quotes

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious intricacies, to be what you were, what you are, what you will be, and what everyone else is or was or will be, too.

I'm going to make my own story for sure.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

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.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.