Courage Quote by Marilyn Hacker

I've been keeping journals since I was a kid.

— Mariette Hartley

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

— Laura Jane Grace

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to…

— Erica Jong

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I've been keeping tour journals since I was 17 years old.

— Laura Jane Grace

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the…

— Francine Rivers

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff,…

— Tavi Gevinson

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to…

— Brent Runyon

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole…

— Cheryl Mendelson

I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also sent it…

— Joanna Coles