Nick Earls Quotes

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

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

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

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

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 that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

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 want to write books.

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

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

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.'

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

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

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

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end!

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.