Courage Quote by Ama Ata Aidoo

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

— Jesmyn Ward

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

— Tyra Banks

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I…

— Nikki Giovanni

I've been writing since I was really young.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the…

— Francine Rivers

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience…

— Bruce Springsteen

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my…

— Maya Angelou