John Searles Quotes

“A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers 'Chucky.'”

— John Searles

My dad was a cross-country truck driver.

— 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

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

“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

“All my friends are female, I've edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to women, and I'm very, very close to my younger sister.”

— 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.”

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

“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

“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 always wanted to be a writer.”

— John Searles

“I don't write to a genre.”

— John Searles

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

— 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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

— John Searles

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

— John Searles