Mary E. Pearson 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 see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

There is no story unless you've written it.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

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

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.

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

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

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.