Robert MacNeil Quotes

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages.

I'm excited to bring my characters to life in book form.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.

I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

I've liked Pete Gurney's writing always.

I'm not Mr. Hollywood. I'm a book writer.

A high percentage of each of my books has been written in Des Moines.

As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.

My whole life, I've wanted to be a novelist.

I want to write books.

My mother obviously was in the publishing business.

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

I didn't think I could pull off a novel.

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.