Novelist Quote by Christopher McQuarrie Download Open image “I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.” — Christopher McQuarrie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Novelist Novelists Old Originally Time Wanted Writing Years
I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve. — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
“Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Söze.” — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another,… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pen seemed to take on a life of its own when she sat before a sheaf of blank parchment paper. She wrote about characters unlike any people she had ever known... sometimes violent, brutal, always passionate; some who came to ruin and some who even… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“I know you would be watching over me all through this journey called life... whenever I look next to me, I feel like you… — Santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image