Ability Quote by John Lennon

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

— Siri Hustvedt

In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate to what…

— Floyd Cooper

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

— Edward Hirsch

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write…

— Grace Paley

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew…

— Graeme Base

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

— Kevin Powers

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

— John Darnielle

“Every child likes to take a pencil to make a mark. Everybody makes beautiful things when they are three, four, or five years old.…

— Alvaro Siza

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft…

— Patti Smith

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was…

— Harry Mathews