Elementary school Quote by Grazia Deledda

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 studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

— Nathaniel Rich

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann

Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who speak Italian…

— Miroslav Penkov

I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.

— Soupy Sales

When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a…

— Louis Sachar

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade…

— Tim Winton

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

— Fred Kaplan

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

— Paul Theroux

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

— Trisha Yearwood

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

— David Nicholls

I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments…

— Sloane Crosley