Conscious Quote by Martin Amis

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

— John Boyne

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

— Kelsea Ballerini

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 was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so…

— Derek Walcott

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

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

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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

— Lana Del Rey

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have…

— Richard K. Morgan

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