Books Quote by Stephen King

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began…

— Harper Lee

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and…

— Ally Carter

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I…

— Peter Robinson

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for…

— Ayobami Adebayo

The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it.…

— Elif Batuman

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan