Coming together Quote by Myles Garrett

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

— Siri Hustvedt

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my…

— Darren Aronofsky

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

— Christopher Koch

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I wasn't ready for school as a kid. The only thing I wanted to do was play football.

— Tony Adams

When I was young, all I wanted to do was play football.

— Gylfi Sigurdsson

When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

— Patti Smith

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I…

— Amish Tripathi

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write…

— Jena Malone

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

— Steven Hall

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball.…

— Jonathan Winters

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

— Susan Cain