Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

I have written stories since I was a child.

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

As soon as I could write, I was writing stories.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

I started writing stories as a child.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.