Composition Quote by Vera Nazarian

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

— Simon Van Booy

“I loved Tolkien and while I wished to have written his book, I had no desire at all to write like him. Tolkien’s words…

— Neil Gaiman

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

— Ruskin Bond

That awkward moment when you can't read your own handwriting and you're like 'WTF did I just write!?'

— Anonymous

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made…

— Kameron Hurley

I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world…

— Kevin Spacey

“When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.”

— Dennis Cooper

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written,"…

— Andrew Davies

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

— Shawn Mendes

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

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer