Childhood Quote by Grandma Moses

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's…

— Grandma Moses

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

— Steven Spielberg

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

— Russell Banks

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my…

— Maurice Sendak

When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the…

— Franny Armstrong

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and…

— Kate DiCamillo

I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the…

— Grant Morrison

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in…

— Khaled Hosseini

When I was young I drew constantly in my sketchbooks to learn to see things. My first teacher in school, Gilbert Stone, taught me…

— Douglas Florian

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

— Patricia Cornwell

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason.…

— Tina Fey