Beautiful Quote by Mark Haddon

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the…

— Mark Haddon

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to…

— Jose Saramago

I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me.

— Brian Bird

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

— Sean Durkin

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few…

— Kurt Busiek

I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of thing. Screenwriting…

— Katie Wech

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as…

— B. J. Novak

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

— Helen Dunmore