Age Quote by Judy Blume

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

— Judy Blume

I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god,…

— Judy Blume

But when I realized it was actually going to be this portrait of the artist, birth to death, I had to then discover who…

— Danielle Dutton

I was a 20-something woman living in London and didn't want to write about a 20-something woman living in London! It's an area well…

— Emma Healey

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at…

— Samuel Johnson

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that…

— Nancy Werlin

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane

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

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't…

— Tony Dungy

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

— Ellen Glasgow

I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always…

— Melvyn Bragg