Blake Crouch Quotes

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I started writing stories as a child.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

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.

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

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

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

I have written stories since I was a child.

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

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

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

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.

My very first story, I was around 5, and I really just wrote myself. When I was 5, I loved myself so much I gave myself a twin named Tomi. Everything started out fine. But then I didn't write another black character until I was 18.

When I was little, I used to spend a lot of time making up stories when I was put to bed.

All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.

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

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.

Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.