80s Quote by Patti Smith

I was writing a lot even as a kid.

— Hailey Gates

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright

I wrote a lot as a child. I had an insane imagination.

— Emma Corrin

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

— J. K. Rowling

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

— Edward Hirsch

I never wrote for children. I wrote with respect for the audience, which I've maintained all my life. Doesn't mean I couldn't be risque,…

— Chespirito

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly

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

— Carl Hiaasen

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I…

— Eckhart Tolle

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

— Merritt Wever