Autobiography Quote by John Burnham Schwartz

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my…

— Darren Aronofsky

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

— Al Purdy

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

— Peter Bichsel

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

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

— Cary Fukunaga

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

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

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer.…

— George Orwell