Advice Quote by Joanne Harris

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the…

— Francine Rivers

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do…

— Roger Zelazny

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands…

— Ali Liebegott

I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't…

— Dave Barry

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

— Irwin Shaw

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both…

— Derek Walcott

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

— Charles Stross

I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to…

— Richard Flanagan

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

— Jay IDK

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

I've been writing since I was really young.

— Uzodinma Iweala