Cold Quote by Stellan Skarsgard

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

— Steven Cojocaru

When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought…

— Alice Hoffman

When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time…

— Max Brooks

Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I…

— Ned Beauman

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

— Jonathan Franzen

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful…

— Judy Blume

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

— J. K. Rowling

I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I was seven,…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

— Danielle Steel

My earliest memory is being in a snow hole, aged two-and-a-half, with my dad somewhere up a mountain in a blizzard. I don't know…

— Tommy Caldwell

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came…

— Henning Mankell