Age Quote by Eugene Ionesco

I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a…

— Naomi Alderman

When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the…

— Franny Armstrong

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

— Kevin Powers

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

— Ruskin Bond

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the…

— Francine Rivers

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

— Joan Larkin

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

— Peter Bichsel

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they…

— Mariah Carey

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

— Niki de St. Phalle

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

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a song with my dad. Then in high school I started more writing.

— Gabby Barrett