Children Quote by Kate DiCamillo

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my…

— Avi

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

— Anthony Doerr

Acing a history test in seventh grade taught me nothing. Failing 95% of my grammar quizzes in eighth grade made me work harder and…

— Harry Enten

When I went to high school, I wanted to be a designer of airplanes. But flunking out of the science high school brought me…

— Avi

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my…

— Angela Yee

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life.…

— Kyle Kinane

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library.…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

— Avi

You fail only if you stop writing.

— Ray Bradbury

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written,"…

— Andrew Davies

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

— Andrew Vachss