Andrew Clements Quotes

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

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.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

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 loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

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.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

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

I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films and mythology and stories.

You can't write if you don't read.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

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!

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

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'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.