Books Quote by Ro James

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using…

— Michelle Visage

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory…

— Jonathan Dee

I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I…

— Amanda Hocking

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution -…

— Paulo Coelho

My handwriting was so good I won a prize, a cardboard cut-out of a farmyard; my mother threw it away when we moved.

— June Brown

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that…

— Alicia Keys

I've always kept a notebook in my pocket, I've always written stuff down since I was a kid.

— Gord Downie

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries…

— Julianna Baggott

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

— Nick Flynn

I was my mom's oldest child, so she was like, watching closely and taking notes, like, 'Okay, this is what she gravitates towards,' and…

— Tierra Whack

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

— Jay IDK