Blackbirds Quote by Leni Zumas

I started reading fantasy and science fiction and writing fantasy and science fiction when I was - when I started junior high school.

— Leigh Bardugo

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

— A. E. van Vogt

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

— Octavia Butler

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in the 1990s.

— Liu Cixin

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a…

— Harry Turtledove

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 discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all…

— Terry Pratchett

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out…

— Colin Meloy

Reading, like writing, was a survival strategy when I was young because these were ways of feeling that my world could be much larger…

— Leigh Bardugo

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I…

— Michelle Zauner