John Searles Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.”

“I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night.”

“At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.”

“Buying an apartment in New York was beyond my wildest dreams. I had to scrape together every cent to buy it. And I'm so happy I did.”

“I always wanted to be a writer.”

“I don't write to a genre.”

“I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.”

“My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.”

“No one in my family had ever even gone to college.”

“I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.”