Began Quote by Walter Dean Myers

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read…

— Vik Muniz

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

— Marilynne Robinson

I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old…

— Brian Jacques

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

— Stephen Colbert

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

— Margaret Haddix

I used to write from the time I was in school, and during college days too.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt