Books Quote by Randa Abdel-Fattah

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

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

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

— Dan Mangan

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

— Anne McCaffrey

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

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

— David Grann

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when…

— Linda Sue Park

I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read.

— Tom Fletcher

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think,…

— Ron Rash

When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he…

— Keith Hernandez

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman