Academic Quote by Thomas Mallon

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an…

— Junot Diaz

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the…

— Paul Di Filippo

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are…

— Stanley Crawford

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant…

— Tony Kushner

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To…

— Patricia Wentworth

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you…

— Patrick Modiano

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill