Able Quote by Harper Lee

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single…

— Karrine Steffans

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions…

— Kim Harrison

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck…

— Shonda Rhimes

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when…

— Linda Sue Park

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing…

— Elizabeth Berg

I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If…

— Lorrie Moore

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish…

— J. K. Rowling

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt