About Quote by Carl Reiner

I grew up in a house full of books.

— Gillian Flynn

My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from…

— Adam Silvera

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

— Morley Callaghan

I grew up in a house with very few books.

— Ken Livingstone

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

— Morley Callaghan

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

— Jennifer Lopez

I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a…

— Walter Dean Myers

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

— Charles Best

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

— Rainbow Rowell

I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.

— Sunny Hostin

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books…

— Jane Goldman