Geraldine McCaughrean Quotes

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 became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

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

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don't happen. It's the book you wrote; that's all.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

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

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

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 think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.