Acting Quote by Joan Collins

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

— Michael Ironside

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 wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

— Merritt Wever

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

— Cary Fukunaga

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell…

— Mike White

I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college.…

— Thomas Haden Church

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 really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

— David Bowie

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 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

I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

— Diana Gabaldon