Quotes About Inspiration

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could get my hands on.

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

While writing 'Bhavesh,' I pretty much chewed up every single graphic novel I could get my hands on, so all the way from the entire 'Batman' series, Frank Miller's 'Batman,' Ed Brubaker's 'Batman,' Scott Snyder's 'Batman,' all the way through 'Daredevil' to '100 Bullets,' through so many other graphic novels.

I write novels and other things.

I spend about a year between novels.

Writing novels is the most exciting.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

My novels are all ideas.