Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

John Boyne Quote: 'Throughout my teenage years, I read ...'

Related Quotes

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
Claire Tomalin
dolomites mountains italy alpine
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.


Ava Gardner
I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.
Tony DiTerlizzi
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
John Green
Tags: Me Always Never
Essentially, I never know what I'm going to do until I read the script, but a good story is a good story. I would like to do more modern stuff, but ultimately, it doesn't matter to me - good stories are timeless.
Rupert Evans
Tags: Good Me Like
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.
Marla Maples
Tags: People Me About
I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of.
Michelle Paver
Tags: Think Most Years
We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an A story, a B story, and a C story just about every episode. So by the middle of that show's run, we always had three stories, and it worked really well.
Alan Yang
I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
Barbara Corcoran
Tags: People Me Very
I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.
Martin Freeman
Tags: Time Christmas Me
It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.
Sara Zarr
I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'
Darren Shan
Tags: Never Where Said
I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.
Neneh Cherry
Tags: Women Me Up
I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
Barbara Mertz
Tags: About Very Been
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
Charles Van Doren
Tags: Happiness You Me
stairs pottery flowers village
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.


Heather Donahue
Tags: Age Very Could
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
Nora Roberts
Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
Patrick Ness
Tags: People Me Been
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
Jane Smiley
Tags: Me Because Us
When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tags: People Like About