Mainly I love working on good writing.
If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.
If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.
Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
And I love writing. I've always loved writing.
You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
Don't write for money.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can write whatever is hot. You can't say you're going to write romance when you don't even like it. You need to write what you would read if you expect anybody else to read it.
I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.
It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
