Amanda Hocking Quotes

'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

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

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit there with your mouth open, and your mind goes to all these places they're telling you about that you've never seen, and you're agape. You just can't believe that things can happen like that - but it's just so direct.

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.