Before Quote by Jon Scieszka

For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I wrote stories.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

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

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane

I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't…

— Lucy Corin

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for…

— Ayobami Adebayo

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old.…

— Lucinda Williams

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story -…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I started writing when I was 4.

— Jenna Blum

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored. She said,…

— Joan Didion

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates