Bigger Quote by Maud Hart Lovelace

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

— Lisa Unger

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

— Rita Mae Brown

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I was not especially a writer back in college.

— Robert Sapolsky

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

— Jesmyn Ward

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

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent of wwriting, but I couldn't give up, because by the time, I was…

— Robert Benchley

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

— Lana Del Rey

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

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

— Kent Haruf

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane