Firsts Quote by Harlan Coben

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me…

— Tess Gerritsen

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

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

“Through the years the swirl of a pen, click of a key, and the idea of a story have been my deepest passion. I…

— Sai Marie Johnson

It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we…

— Sara Zarr

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

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

— Kelsea Ballerini

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to…

— Alice Walker

I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare