Beautiful Quote by Karen Thompson Walker

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

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

— Jill Lepore

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

— Lucy Dacus

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

— Keith Hernandez

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think…

— Jess Walter