Childhood Quote by P. G. Wodehouse

“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.”

— Ann Patchett

“When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties,…

— Bernhard Schlink

“I remember the first story I wrote. It truly sucked. But I kept working at it, and look where I am today.”

— Anna Glazebrook

“I was born at the age of five. I know this because I don't remember anything else before that.”

— Michaela McGuire

“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or…

— Joan Didion

“I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. And one day while you were doing that, you felt something…

— Stephen King

“I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreciate the stories she told me until…

— Jessica Maria Tuccelli

“Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all. You needed to…

— Patrick Ness

“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend…

— John Green

“Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.”

— John Wooden

“That is my story. Believe what you will. I remember it all; I remember it still.”

— Mili Fay

“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not…

— Gabriel García Márquez