Also Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way.…

— Jack Kirby

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was…

— Roxane Gay

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I…

— Peter Robinson

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to…

— Alice Munro

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to…

— Natalie Babbitt

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the…

— Jean M. Auel

“[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult readers who…

— Philip Pullman