Tim Cahill Quotes

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

I've known since I was 12 that I wanted to write. My father was a teacher, and there were so many books around, it seemed natural to pick them up.

I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out in front of readers and hoping they'll love it too.

I've always been writing.

Even if someone doesn't like it, or just likes it for me, storytelling has been the one true love story of my entire life.

No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.

I loved the writing process. I loved it.