Books Quote by Junot Diaz

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

— Lana Del Rey

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

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that…

— David Lowery

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

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

I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't…

— Tony Dungy

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

— Bob Schieffer

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to…

— Alice Walker

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

— Tama Janowitz