Hobby Quote by John Grisham

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama…

— John Grisham

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory…

— Jonathan Dee

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

— Lesley Sharp

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then…

— John Francis

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen.…

— Etgar Keret

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think,…

— Ron Rash

I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't…

— Lucy Corin