Childhood Quote by David Quammen

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it…

— Daniel Suarez

I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a…

— Jenny Han

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every…

— Linwood Barclay

I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never…

— Jenny Zhang

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

— Jennifer Weiner

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

— Kiese Laymon

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

— Howard Gordon

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

— Susan Cain

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that…

— Emma Donoghue

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark