Age Quote by Gunter Grass

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling…

— Daniel Clowes

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

— Boyd Holbrook

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the…

— Patti Smith

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

— Mark Haddon

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

I started drawing when I was about 2, mostly pictures of my mother and my sister. When I got into school, instead of taking…

— Megan Fox

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

— Margaret Atwood

“Learning how to draw is just like learning how to write, you just need to find a good teacher, and practice a lot. Just…

— Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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