Lisa Tuttle Quotes

I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

I have written stories since I was a child.

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little.

I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.

As soon as I could write, I was writing stories.

Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.

I started writing stories as a child.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can create something from nothing, and suddenly they come to life, like they've always been there.

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.