Books Quote by Ellen Potter

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

— J. K. Rowling

I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If…

— Jeff Kinney

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then…

— Brian Selznick

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

— Anne McCaffrey

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I…

— Adora Svitak

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

— Sabaa Tahir

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

— Sean Durkin

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry

I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read.

— Tom Fletcher

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

— Goh Chok Tong