Backyards Quote by Veronica Roth

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

— Audre Lorde

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe…

— Nicole Krauss

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming…

— Rabindranath Maharaj

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

— Emma Corrin

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

— Richard Paul Evans

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

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world,…

— Shane Smith

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

— John Cariani

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

— Patricia Cornwell