Jennine Capó Crucet Quotes

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little.

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

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

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

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

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.