About Quote by Stephen Hawking

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

— Benjamin Franklin

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist…

— Daniel H. Wilson

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to…

— Lev Grossman

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that,…

— Mordecai Richler

I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that…

— Michio Kaku

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too…

— Nick Earls

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since…

— Anonymous

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

— Jenny Han

Before the arrival of my first son, I gave up on the moribund business of magazine publishing, where I had long dreamed of a…

— Rumaan Alam

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

— Anne McCaffrey