Age Quote by D. B. Weiss

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be…

— John Green

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

— Mick Garris

I wasn't really much of a reader early on, but when I first started getting into reading at around 16 all I could really…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for…

— Bridget Carpenter

I grew up watching different kinds of shows and films and read so many different authors.

— Sanya Malhotra

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

— St. Lucia

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

— Louis Sachar

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

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had to find…

— Agnes Varda