Early Quote by Kate DiCamillo

I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the…

— Judy Blume

I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in…

— Samantha Shannon

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

— Mary Gauthier

Becoming a writer wasn't a choice (there would have been far more worthwhile things to do); it was the best, most fruitful way of…

— Alain de Botton

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble…

— Roxane Gay

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.…

— Anna Todd

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary…

— Corey Taylor

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation,…

— Stephen Hunter

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when…

— Linda Sue Park