Margaret Haddix Quotes

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I started writing stories as a child.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

As soon as I could write, I was writing stories.

I've been writing since I was really young.

I've been writing since I was maybe seven.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

All experience helps when you write.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I have written stories since I was a child.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

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 outgrowth of that.