Editors Quote by Jenna Bush

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home…

— Janet Evanovich

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both…

— Derek Walcott

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

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful…

— Elizabeth Strout

I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.

— Shaun King

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

— Jay IDK

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

— Mick Foley

I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.

— Soupy Sales