Dreams Quote by Jennine Capó Crucet

Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working in a…

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

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

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

— Laura Jane Grace

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

— Cary Fukunaga

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

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 always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane