Roxane Gay Quotes

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 always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.

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

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 started writing stories as a child.

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've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

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

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.

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.

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 set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

I love writing about young people.

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

You're a writer. Make it up.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

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

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

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.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.