Georgie Henley Quotes

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

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

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 have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

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

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

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.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

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