Book Quote by Candace Bushnell

I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was…

— Alexandra Adornetto

What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said,…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored. She said,…

— Joan Didion

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was…

— Chrissy Costanza

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

— Margaret Walker

I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.

— Jason Reynolds

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

I always thought everybody made up stories in their heads - never thought about actually writing them down on paper until I was snowed…

— Nora Roberts

When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school and you…

— Steven Knight

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was…

— Edward Albee