Always Quote by Alexandra Adornetto

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so…

— Derek Walcott

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a…

— Sandra Brown

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

— Dan Mangan

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved writing. It has always been one of my passions.

— Natalya Neidhart

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later…

— Sharon Creech

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when…

— Linda Sue Park

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

— Jay IDK

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for…

— Ayobami Adebayo

In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could…

— Sarah Dessen