Book Quote by Marge Piercy

I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I…

— Amanda Hocking

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be…

— Jasmila Zbanic

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

— Edward Hirsch

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice…

— Dani Shapiro

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an…

— Neil Simon

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt

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