Affair Quote by Jami Attenberg

I could write a book on the things I've done drunk.

— Kid Rock

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

— Sarah Dessen

I feel lucky. I do love it, mostly. At college I had it in my heart that I wanted to be a writer but…

— Lauren Groff

I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a…

— Sarah Dessen

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers…

— Alexandra Adornetto

In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could…

— Sarah Dessen

There were people I knew that came to college and had never drank before, and never partied, and maybe got a little bit too…

— Chris Baio

That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

— Ace Antonio Hall

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go…

— Amanda Hocking