Age Quote by Laurie Simmons

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 think I have always wanted to tell stories. My mother was the real catalyst. I kept talking about it and so she pulled…

— Kim Smith

I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but they don't…

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of it as…

— Zoe Kazan

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

— Amanda Hocking

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling…

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that…

— Greg Mottola

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I…

— Peter Robinson

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

— Malcolm D. Lee