Beginning Quote by Alice Walker

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

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 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 was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I…

— Amanda Hocking

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and…

— Sudha Murty

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

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…

— Junot Diaz

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

— Kelsea Ballerini

I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and…

— Renee Watson