Eighth grade Quote by Thomas Perry

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann

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

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

— Chrissy Costanza

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

— Jena Malone

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

— Anonymous

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

— Sean Durkin

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved writing. It has always been one of my passions.

— Natalya Neidhart

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

— Charles Bock

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

— Karen Thompson Walker