Intimidated Quote by Greg Mottola

It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about…

— Matt Haig

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

— Tyra Banks

To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I…

— Jeff Tweedy

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience…

— Bruce Springsteen

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

— Jesmyn Ward

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

— Celine Sciamma

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

— Aimee Bender

I'm growing as a woman and I'm able to write about things that I wanted to write about when I was younger.

— Sabrina Claudio

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

— Mary Karr

Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young people. My…

— Renee Watson