I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about…

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

— bell hooks

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of…

— Michael Jackson

My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a…

— Alicia Coppola

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

— Geoff Thompson

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

— Dick Dale

I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up,…

— Robert Klein

I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.

— Greg Behrendt

My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life.…

— Anne Roiphe

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote…

— Jim Gaffigan

When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to realize over…

— Trevor Noah

Wrote the book on pain.

— Shinedown

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

— Edgar Mitchell