Abbey Quote by Brian Jacques

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film…

— Ruskin Bond

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing…

— Gunter Grass

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my…

— Maurice Sendak

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in…

— Daniel Handler

I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I wrote a lot as a child. I had an insane imagination.

— Emma Corrin

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

— Patricia Cornwell

I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture…

— Tove Jansson

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

— Mark Haddon

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

— Neil Farber

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer