Adults Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries…

— Julianna Baggott

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

— Kelsea Ballerini

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and…

— Tom Petty

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

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck…

— Shonda Rhimes

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

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can…

— Tony Gaskins

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

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

— Charli XCX

I started writing when I was 4.

— Jenna Blum

I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that.…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter