Amanda Hocking Quotes

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

One thing I really want to explore is writing.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

You become a great writer by writing.

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

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

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

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

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.