Always Quote by Gillian Flynn

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

— Rick Springfield

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so…

— Derek Walcott

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and…

— Tom Petty

I have always been a dark writer.

— George R. R. Martin

I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but…

— Grace Lin

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

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

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think,…

— Ron Rash

The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about…

— Dan Chaon

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

— Jenny Han