Naomi Alderman Quotes

Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

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.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer.

Writing is definitely something that interests me a lot.

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

I feel very proud in what we've created in the 'Spiderwick' stories. And, frankly, I am glad we are ending the series on a high-note.

I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I have written stories since I was a child.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.

I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.