Assets Quote by Lorrie Moore

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and…

— Samantha Shannon

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

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far…

— Ben Fountain

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking…

— Anne-Marie Duff

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

— J. K. Rowling

One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given…

— Marie Calloway

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

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

— Tennessee Williams