Top 29 Quotes & Sayings by John Searles

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer John Searles.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

John Searles is an American writer and book critic. He is the author of four novels: Her Last Affair, Help For The Haunted (ISBN 978-0060779634), Strange But True (ISBN 0-06-072179-0) and Boy Still Missing (ISBN 0-06-082243-0). His essays have appeared in national magazines and newspapers, and he contributes frequently to morning television shows as a book critic. He is based in New York City.

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I don't write to a genre.

John Searles

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

John Searles

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

John Searles

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.

John Searles

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

John Searles

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me.

John Searles

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.

John Searles

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

John Searles

Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of signings. Nowadays, readers want to feel a connection with an author.

John Searles

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.

John Searles

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

John Searles

I always joke deep down I'm really a teenage girl on the inside.

John Searles

I always wanted to be a writer.

John Searles

I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day.

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

John Searles

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

John Searles

My dad was a cross-country truck driver.

John Searles

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

John Searles

My writing is sort of 'Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.'

John Searles

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

John Searles

My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.

John Searles

I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still more writers who I met on Twitter, too.

John Searles