Sharon Creech Quotes

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.

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

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

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 simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.