Books Quote by Maya Hawke

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

— Talulah Riley

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published…

— Kent Haruf

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a…

— Sandra Brown

Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself…

— Virpi Hameen-Anttila

Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write. I just…

— Stephenie Meyer

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

I just loved storytelling. That's what I thought I would end up doing. I thought I would probably go to school and end up…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

— Heather Donahue

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

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

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of…

— Tracy Kidder