Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

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

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

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

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

I simply love writing good stories; that's my passion.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

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

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

I loved the writing process. I loved it.

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

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

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

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.