Sophie Kennedy Clark Quotes

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.

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.