Discovering Quote by Laini Taylor

I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved…

— Lloyd Alexander

Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out…

— Anthony Doerr

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with…

— Christine and the Queens

As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other…

— Victoria Hanley

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

— William Monahan

I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing…

— Ken Baumann

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own…

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much…

— Paloma Elsesser

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I…

— Adora Svitak

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know…

— Haruki Murakami