Alexandra Fuller Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

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.

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

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

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

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

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

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

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

Books come from within.