Fiction Quote by Jess Walter

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

— Helen Dunmore

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started…

— Andrea Barrett

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a…

— Harry Turtledove

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to…

— Donald E. Westlake

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 started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to…

— Amy Hempel

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann

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