Birth Quote by Joan Larkin

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

— Charli XCX

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

I started writing songs when I was eight.

— Wiz Khalifa

I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest plays, in…

— Hassan Blasim

I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be…

— Alice Walker

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

— Kevin Powers

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

— Samuel Barber

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

— Kelsea Ballerini