Book Quote by Mike Greenberg

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

— David Grann

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

— Rick Riordan

I was a very quiet kid who didn't feel normal being outgoing and running around, so all the beauty that was in my life,…

— Alison Sudol

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my next novel,…

— James Bernard Frost

I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.

— Jason Reynolds

The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang…

— Jessye Norman

I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most…

— Pat Murphy

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.…

— Anna Todd

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,

— Carl Hiaasen