Henning Mankell Quotes

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

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.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

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.

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

I've been writing since I was really young.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

I started writing stories as a child.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

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

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

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.