Be happy Quote by Jane Gardam

Writing has been one of the most powerful influences in my life and it always has been since I was a little girl.

— Evangeline Lilly

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that…

— Naguib Mahfouz

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

When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the…

— Franny Armstrong

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

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most…

— Margaret Mahy

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck…

— Shonda Rhimes

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that…

— Emma Donoghue