Stephenie Meyer Quotes

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.

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.

A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

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.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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 don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

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

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

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

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

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.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

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 have always enjoyed literature classes, and I took a fiction workshop for writing and analyzing at Curtis... I don't know if would do it professionally, but it's nice to have the balance with the music.