Amanda Hocking Quotes

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

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

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

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.

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I started writing stories as a child.

I always love writing about children.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

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.

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.