Beginning Quote by Alex Scott

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our…

— Ransom Riggs

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so…

— Greta Garbo

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

— Odilon Redon

I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine -…

— Andrea Riseborough

When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you…

— Kim Swift

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

— Isabel Allende

Seeing different sides of life, seeing different sides of society, that's what London's all about. When I was young my mum always tried to…

— Dizzee Rascal

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

— Catherine Helen Spence

Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.

— Letitia Wright

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

— Emily Atack

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where…

— Daniel Craig

I'm from just outside London, near Reading.

— Ellie Bamber