America Quote by Christopher Darden

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had…

— Lawrence Wright

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote…

— Zoe Kazan

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.'…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took…

— Tom Robbins

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

— Trisha Yearwood

When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English…

— Randall Park

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

— Richard Foreman