Abroad Quote by Patricia MacLachlan

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want…

— Tea Obreht

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I…

— Michael Connelly

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to…

— Alice Walker

Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before…

— William Boyd

I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or England or…

— Joseph O'Neill

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

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a…

— Robert Morgan

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

— Charles King

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

— Jami Attenberg

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation,…

— Stephen Hunter

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