Books Quote by Tomi Adeyemi Download Open image “Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.” — Tomi Adeyemi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Everyone Read Story Them Younger
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives. — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
“A story can take children places they've never been before and tell them about things that happened to folks even older than their elders.” — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
We've been told the same story for so long. We've seen literally 1,000 'Lord of the Rings' movies. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan, but I still think there is a lot of anime that is crazier than 'Harry Potter,' and that… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
Children of color need a mirror to see themselves in. And then people who don't have that experience, they need a window. They need… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
If I went to any other college, I probably would have been pre-med. But I felt like I had freedom to do what I… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I want to give something to the world that I feel I missed out on as a child, and I want to help people… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
At every writers' conference, you have the opportunity to hear from best-selling authors, top literary agents, and excellent editors who will demystify the publishing… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
“You have your duty and your heart. To chose one means the other must suffer.” — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
