Decided Quote by Edward Albee

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6.

— Peter Heller

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

— Mary Harron

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

— bell hooks

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

— Elizabeth George

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'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 was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my…

— Angela Yee

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