Childhood Quote by Alex Flinn

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

— Stephen Colbert

When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and…

— Choi Sung-bong

Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out…

— Anthony Doerr

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop -…

— Idina Menzel

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at…

— Aya Cash

I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my…

— Kali Uchis

Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three…

— Dennis Cooper

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 had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was…

— Regina Spektor

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

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel