Phoebe Robinson Quotes

I started writing stories as a child.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

I have written stories since I was a child.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

You live vicariously through your characters.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

As a small child, I could watch anything happen and tell a story, and it was funny.

I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've worked in. Having said that, it's fiction and has a lot to do with my imagination and creativity.

I take inspiration from my life but only twenty per cent is real the rest is all made up.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.