Books Quote by Ally Carter

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the…

— Maya Angelou

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck…

— Shonda Rhimes

When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the…

— Franny Armstrong

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about…

— Gunter Grass

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

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write stories, but…

— Jorja Smith

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or…

— John Irving

I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't. It was…

— Stephen King

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries…

— Julianna Baggott