Become Quote by Pat Conroy

I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the…

— Joe Manganiello

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

— Julie Andrews

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun…

— Ellen Potter

I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year,…

— Harmony Korine

My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in…

— Matt Ross

I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman…

— Catherine Jinks

My way of dealing with not really fitting in at my very crappy New England high school and junior high was to write sketch…

— Susanna Fogel

I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being…

— Amanda Hocking

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write…

— Jena Malone

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and…

— David Tennant

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

— Jessica Mitford