Crazy Quote by Amanda Gorman

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries…

— Julianna Baggott

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck…

— Shonda Rhimes

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a song with my dad. Then in high school I started more writing.

— Gabby Barrett

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them…

— Carrie Fisher

The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about…

— Dan Chaon

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 started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to…

— Jazmine Sullivan

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

— Lena Dunham

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy