Advice Quote by Judith Viorst

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

— John Boyne

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

— Cassandra Clare

When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school and you…

— Steven Knight

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

— Mary Harron

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something…

— Henry Rollins

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 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'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

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood