Being Quote by Jeff Kinney

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things…

— Jennifer Weiner

It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example,…

— Elizabeth Berg

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of…

— Jodi Picoult

The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my childhood.

— Peter Hedges

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and…

— Kate DiCamillo

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with…

— Christine and the Queens

Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation that either…

— Melanie Martinez

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

— Joel Edgerton

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that…

— Heather O'Neill

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney