After Quote by Heather Graham Pozzessere

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was…

— Chrissy Costanza

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's…

— Al Yankovic

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered…

— John Paul DeJoria

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

— Judy Blume

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for…

— Ayobami Adebayo

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

— Cassandra Clare

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles