Alligator Quote by Karen Russell

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life.…

— Candace Bushnell

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of…

— S. E. Hinton

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make…

— Matthew Nable

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that…

— Greg Mottola

Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I've been writing since I was really young.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

— Aimee Bender

I've been writing since I was 19.

— Melvyn Bragg

I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me.

— Brian Bird

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

— Zoe Kazan

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

— Beverly Cleary