Beats Quote by Richard Ford

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

— Robert Jay Lifton

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

— James Joyce

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at…

— Samuel Johnson

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen…

— David Sedaris

I started writing songs at 14 about things I was living at school, and the things I felt at that age.

— Natalia Lafourcade

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

— Peter Davison

It wasn't until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was a bookseller…

— Adam Silvera

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from…

— William Gibson

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

— Meg Wolitzer

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn…

— Jesse Andrews