Always Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

I wrote a lot as a child. I had an insane imagination.

— Emma Corrin

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things…

— Sara Sheridan

I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was…

— Alexandra Adornetto

It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

— Jon Krakauer

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

— Patrick White

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I…

— Chris Kyle

I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel,…

— Mary Kay Andrews

I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it; I didn't…

— Vogue Williams

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing…

— Anonymous

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.

— Eva Gutowski

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

— Ellen Gilchrist