Aspire Quote by Fran Lebowitz

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that…

— Fran Lebowitz

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that…

— Fran Lebowitz

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books…

— Don Novello

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me...…

— Kate DiCamillo

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human…

— Anthony Doerr

When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on…

— Mark Kurlansky

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

— Meg Wolitzer

When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved obviously and…

— Michael Chabon

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was…

— Chrissy Costanza

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed…

— Alan Dean Foster

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

— Philip Reeve

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book…

— Rebecca Stead