Accidents Quote by Chantal Kreviazuk

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution -…

— Paulo Coelho

As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something…

— Sam Smith

I've been writing since I was 19.

— Melvyn Bragg

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

— Jesmyn Ward

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

— Kelsea Ballerini

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

— Marie Lu

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to…

— Alice Walker

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

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

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux