Fay Godwin Quotes

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

People do write books.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

I am not a fan of books.

I am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun.

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.

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 love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

I love my books.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

I'm obsessed with books.

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.

I am a bookworm.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

I've always been a big fan of books.

My books aren't autobiographical.

I want to write books.

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

I like books. I read a lot, to be honest.

My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

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.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.