Everything Quote by Karl Lagerfeld

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

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment…

— Deborah Smith

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I knew at five years old what I wanted to do for a living. I started reading newspapers and books out loud at a…

— Mauro Ranallo

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five,…

— Chris Abani

I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored. She said,…

— Joan Didion

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to…

— Lynne Tillman

I was six or seven and an interpreter.

— Sajid Javid

There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could express myself…

— Lorrie Moore

I started writing when I was 4.

— Jenna Blum

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