Age Quote by Julie Klassen

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have…

— Richard K. Morgan

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut…

— Lisa Joy

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on…

— Toni Morrison

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write…

— Ruskin Bond

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted,…

— Jonathan Franzen

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole…

— Amor Towles

I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to…

— Richard Flanagan

I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially…

— Natsuo Kirino

Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good…

— Martin Amis

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

— Susan Cain

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson