Apartment Quote by Jean Hanff Korelitz

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

— Jenny Holzer

At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in…

— Eavan Boland

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

— Candace Bushnell

I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the…

— Rebecca Serle

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

— Susan Cain

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 was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist -…

— Neil Gaiman

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 a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then…

— Jenny Zhang

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I moved to New York when I was eight years old, in 1978. I grew up in Manhattan. I couldn't speak any English, and…

— Nicolas Winding Refn