Chasing Quote by Dorothy Allison

There's not a lot of good content to write about when you're 13 years old, so you just have to kind of fake it.

— Maren Morris

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after…

— Diane Duane

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

— Siri Hustvedt

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

— Peter Bichsel

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

— Al Purdy

Writing about my life was a 13-year process where I had to face my demons as I wrote and take the time to understand…

— Dominique Jackson

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

— Gay Talese

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

— bell hooks

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery…

— Stephen Gaghan

I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was…

— Alexandra Adornetto

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven…

— Rosemary Mahoney