Liya Kebede Quotes

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

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 have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know anything about, or hopefully don't know anything about. I think 'Banshee' gives people a chance to do that pretty safely because we all know there's a solid buffer between the show and reality.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.