Bits Quote by David B. Coe

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly…

— Rachel Kushner

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

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

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

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on…

— William Finnegan

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an…

— Junot Diaz

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich