Books Quote by Brian Hodge Download Open image “I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.” — Brian Hodge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Firsts Grades Length Novel Stories Trying
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. — David Grann Copy Share Image
I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge. — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“So, not at first, but I eventually realized I was seeing this level of reality that’s going on right over our heads and most… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
“Let me see what I can come up with,' she said, and seemed to take a new satisfaction in it now. Something wrong to… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do within horror is explore this feeling that a lot of people seem to have from time to… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You need to… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems as if the best technology is still only catching up to what nature has already figured out.” — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
“Some dreams never leave you, because they’re more than just dreams. They’re truth, distilled to purest potency.” — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we sleep because we want to, sometimes because we need it, and sometimes we sleep in self-defense.” — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time. — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
“Without wonder, there’s no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don’t exercise your capacity for wonder…well, use it or lose it.… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
“Nothing can play havoc with your sense of scale better than looking deeply into the night skies. It can leave you feeling immense and… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
