Genesis Quote by Natalie Dormer

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

— Erykah Badu

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

— Andrea Arnold

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the…

— Jean M. Auel

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since…

— Anonymous

I've been writing since I was maybe seven.

— Megan Thee Stallion

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

— Cormac McCarthy

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

— Michael Koryta

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

— Jena Malone

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson