Books Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to…

— Lynne Tillman

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

— Caitlin Moran

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that…

— Carol Windley

Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my…

— Terry Pratchett

I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read.

— Tom Fletcher

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

— Sabaa Tahir

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how…

— Avi

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.'…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah