Books Quote by Ally Carter

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

— J. A. Jance

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of…

— S. E. Hinton

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to…

— Peter Carey

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

— S. E. Hinton

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed…

— Jonathan Meades

If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and…

— Jonathan Franzen

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing…

— Hallie Ephron

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think,…

— Ron Rash

I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't…

— Lucy Corin

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak