Charlamagne tha God Quotes

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky to be able to do it.

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 wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

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

I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

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.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

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.

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 would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

I love making up titles.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.