Sabaa Tahir Quotes

I started writing stories as a child.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

I have written stories since I was a child.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.