Always Quote by Leonard Cohen

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 have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me…

— Julie Klassen

I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me.

— Brian Bird

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'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

— Conor Oberst

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

— Lana Del Rey

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

— John Boyne

I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films…

— Grace Potter

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 love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career,…

— Victoria Gotti

I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest plays, in…

— Hassan Blasim