Body Quote by Fiona Barton

But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of…

— Brian Lumley

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to…

— Alice Walker

I've been writing ever since I was a child: I used to give my English teacher extra homework and say, 'What do you think…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and…

— Gregory Allen Howard

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

— Zadie Smith

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

— Joan Larkin

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with…

— Leslie Banks

It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“In fact, my experiences as I was writing the 3:16 book weren't that different from writing computer books, although I wasn't using integral signs…

— Donald E. Knuth

Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are…

— Alice Sebold

I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are…

— Jackie Collins

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next…

— Adam Clymer