Growing up Quote by Jenny Zhang

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always…

— Colson Whitehead

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

— Dani Shapiro

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

— Dan Chaon

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the…

— Margaret Haddix

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

— Anthony Shadid

I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit…

— Armistead Maupin

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

— Eoin Macken

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

— Henry Louis Gates

I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

— Matt Skiba

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

— Ruskin Bond

A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood stories to…

— Jim Jefferies