Children Quote by Elfriede Jelinek

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've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

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

— Edward Hirsch

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

Growing up, I didn't know any writers and felt somewhat isolated.

— Marie Lu

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to…

— Markus Zusak

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think…

— George Pelecanos

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I…

— Michelle Zauner

Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a…

— Sabaa Tahir

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at…

— Jane Gardam