Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I put my soul into every book I write.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.

It's that drama that drives authors, you know.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

I love to write.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time because you know what you're doing. With writing a novel, you have to figure it out each time. Each time you start over, you just have the language and the idea and the hope.

In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a few stories to stall before starting this other book that I wanted to write - or thought I wanted to write: I still haven't written it.

I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

I loved the writing process. I loved it.

Over time, I decided to take up only those stories I love.

If you enjoy your journey as a writer, you will never find it difficult to write.

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.