About Quote by Octavia E. Butler

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

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

— Ginger Rogers

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann

There were books all over the house, and I was always told that I could write and that it was something good to do.…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

— Ellen Gilchrist

'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that…

— Amy Bloom

There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of person who…

— Anthony Bourdain

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that they have…

— John Stockton

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from…

— William Gibson

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck…

— Shonda Rhimes

I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to…

— Donald E. Westlake