Kevin Crossley-Holland Quotes

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

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.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

I write in a rush of memory.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.