Childhood Quote by Robert J. Sawyer

I want to write about grown-up things.

— Nicola Griffith

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time…

— Ann Hood

Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation that either…

— Melanie Martinez

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to…

— Jerry Spinelli

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

— Leigh Newman

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your…

— Rafael Yglesias

Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

— Beverly Cleary

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and…

— Sudha Murty