Nikki Reed Quotes

Write what you know.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I simply love writing good stories; that's my passion.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

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've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

I make it all up, and all of it is true.

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

That's the secret to anything we write. You have to bring your experience to it. Otherwise, how do you expect anyone else to connect to it?

When you work at a magazine, you have to tell the truth. When you're not working in that format, it's fun to see where your mind takes you when the dictates have nothing to do with anyone but yourself.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

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

I prefer writing originals.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.