Books Quote by Doris Lessing

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution -…

— Paulo Coelho

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old…

— Brian Jacques

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

— bell hooks

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

— A. S. Byatt

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

— Vera Nazarian

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

— Peter Bichsel

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

— Edward Hirsch

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb