John Connolly Quotes

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Every kid has a story to tell!

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.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

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.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

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 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.

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

I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.

I love writing about young people.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

You can't write if you don't read.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

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.