Adult Quote by Melanie Martinez

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened…

— Nikki Grimes

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.…

— Anne Tyler

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood,…

— Sue Perkins

The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen…

— Tara Westover

I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

— Beverly Cleary

A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood stories to…

— Jim Jefferies

One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and…

— Theresa Breslin

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things…

— Jeff Kinney