Loved Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries…

— Julianna Baggott

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

My mother taught me how to write.

— Kesha

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 started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did…

— Nicola Cornick

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the…

— Francine Rivers

I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

— Ken Venturi

My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures…

— Loretta Lynn

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter…

— Michael Easton

My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and was very…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and…

— Judith Viorst

I was always Amanda, even when I went by a different name.

— Amanda Lepore