David Grann Quotes

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I love Roald Dahl.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

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

My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

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

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

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 would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

When I was younger, I liked writing stories and watching younger actors on TV.

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.

I grew up in a haunted house, reading Dr. Seuss.

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.