Firsts Quote by Jami Attenberg

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was…

— Roxane Gay

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

— Cassandra Clare

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

— Lana Del Rey

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

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've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and…

— Renee Watson

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

— Tobias Wolff