Philip Reeve Quotes

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!

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I like short stories.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

I read a lot of fiction.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.