Any Quote by Mary Gordon

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I…

— Peter Robinson

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There…

— Haruki Murakami

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

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

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful…

— Michael Tolkin

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It…

— James Herriot