Christopher Paolini Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

  Christopher Paolini

  Teacher, Writing, School

  "Christopher Paolini: 'Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon'" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

• I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

  Christopher Paolini

  Grateful, Writing, Stories

  "Christopher Paolini: 'Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon'". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

• In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

  Christopher Paolini

  Writing, Lyrical, Strive

  "An Hour with Paolini". Christopher Paolini's talk/question panel at the Christchurch Armageddon Expo in New Zealand, impishidea.com. June 30, 2012.

• Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.

  Christopher Paolini

  Writing, Character, People

• If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

  Christopher Paolini

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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