Ally Carter Quotes

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

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

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

I love to write. It's my first love.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.