Almost Quote by Cynthia Kadohata

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

— Cassandra Clare

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was…

— Roxane Gay

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

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

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I…

— Meg Cabot

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

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