Children Quote by Marguerite Duras

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

— Reinhold Messner

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

— Dan Chaon

I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always…

— Melvyn Bragg

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

— Chrissy Costanza

I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn't realized that…

— Paulo Coelho

Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age…

— Anne Rice

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them!…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and…

— Kate DiCamillo

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing…

— Hallie Ephron

Whether they're ghosts of great writers or people I loved - some died because of AIDS, others under mysterious circumstances - I don't want…

— Lynne Tillman

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to…

— R. A. Salvatore