Marie Lu Quotes

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

Everybody draws when they are little.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

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.

I know I can always draw, but I actually love the writing the most.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

Don't think it, ink it.

I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

I started writing stories as a child.

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

As a kid I was creative.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.