Daniel Alarcon 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've just always been very interested in story above all.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

I like writing historical fiction.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

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 like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

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

I love my books.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

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.

While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first time - I looked out of the window and thought, 'If this is what books can do, this is what I want to do.'

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.

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

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.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.