Afternoon Quote by David Sedaris

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

— Mike Cernovich

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

— Joyce Maynard

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are…

— Stanley Crawford

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen…

— David Sedaris

When I'm writing, I just kind of put myself in a place, in a certain time period in my life.

— Cuco

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

— Sue Grafton

Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and…

— Lorrie Moore

When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the…

— 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

I've been writing since I was 19.

— Melvyn Bragg

I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I…

— W. Bruce Cameron