Died Quote by Jill Scott

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

— Yolanda King

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a song with my dad. Then in high school I started more writing.

— Gabby Barrett

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

— Siri Hustvedt

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

— Charli XCX

I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up,…

— John Burnham Schwartz

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my…

— Ella Henderson

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

— bell hooks

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

— Mose Allison

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

Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.

— Michael Portillo

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad…

— Brian Blessed

My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a…

— Yance Ford