Acted Quote by Lennie James

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

— Pam Gems

I started writing when was probably 15 or 16. I got put on the stage when I was 14 or 13.

— Skip Marley

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

— Merritt Wever

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when…

— Joan Collins

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

— Michael Ironside

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted…

— Annie Baker

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I…

— Wallace Shawn

I started writing - just generally - when I was 10, there, and started writing songs when I was maybe 11 turning 12.

— Montaigne

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim