Author Quote by Jacqueline E. Smith

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

— Ray Bradbury

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

— Charles Kuralt

I get to watch stories I wrote brought to life by the most brilliant actors in cinema.

— Chris Claremont

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was…

— Robert Osborne

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money,…

— Denis Johnson

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she…

— Aimee Bender

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when…

— Linda Sue Park

But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir, of course,…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money,…

— Denis Johnson

I started off at a local newspaper called 'The Middle East Times,' which is no longer in existence. I remember one of the earliest…

— Mona Eltahawy

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

— Sabaa Tahir

“I have worked locked psych wards and had patients give me stories they wrote or poems and this reminded me of that... Word salad!”

— Montzalee Wittmann