Classic Quote by Beth Grant

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I sat in a theater when I was 11 years old and watched 'The Empire Strikes Back' from 10 in the morning until 10…

— Joe Russo

I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.

— Steven Knight

I was so hooked to 'The Da Vinci Code' that I jumped out of bed at 2 A. M., and could only go back…

— P. R. Sreejesh

It wasn't until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was a bookseller…

— Adam Silvera

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 remember in the movies we used to do two pages a day. One in the morning and one in the afternoon.

— Fred MacMurray

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

— Charles Stross

When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought…

— Alice Hoffman

I think I was 10 when I saw my first R-rated movie, 'Stand by Me,' in the theater.

— Anna Boden

I saw 'Clueless' probably when I was about 8 or 9 years old. And, I had certain films that I would fall asleep so…

— Saoirse Ronan

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat…

— Karl Marlantes