Always Quote by Stephen Hough

When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so foolish that…

— Tim Curry

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always…

— Melvyn Bragg

I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years.

— Timothee Chalamet

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would…

— Alice Munro

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now…

— Louise Penny

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

“When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties,…

— Bernhard Schlink

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical…

— Frankie Cosmos

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,

— Carl Hiaasen