John Sladek Quotes

I started writing stories as a child.

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

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

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 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.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

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

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

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.

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

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.

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

I have written stories since I was a child.

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.

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

I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

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.

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 writing my own things when I was about 8.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

I've been writing since I was really young.

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

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