Better Quote by Anthony Shadid

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

— Dan Chaon

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with…

— Dorothy Parker

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

— J. K. Rowling

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as…

— Nick Flynn

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun…

— Ellen Potter

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

— Judy Blume

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

— Beverly Cleary

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

— Meg Wolitzer

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one,…

— Judy Blume

Growing up, I didn't know any writers and felt somewhat isolated.

— Marie Lu

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that…

— Emma Donoghue