Ally Carter Quotes

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

Ally Carter

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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

Gabrielle Zevin
- Writing
- School
- Present
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

Edmund White
- Reading
- Distance
- Say
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

Carl Honore
- World
- Writing
- Journalism
Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.

Patrick deWitt
- Reading
- Daily
- Forget
We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

Adam D'Angelo
- People
- Great
- Writing
With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

Hannibal Buress
- Writing
- Trying
- You