Books Quote by Chrissy Costanza

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

— St. Lucia

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,

— Carl Hiaasen

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's…

— Al Yankovic

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

— Jason Reynolds

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that…

— Carol Windley

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's…

— Dick Bruna

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong