Quotes About Creativity

I don't write romance novels.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

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

I think of my novels as entertainments.

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 have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

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.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

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.

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

My novels are all ideas.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.