About Quote by Patrick White

I suffered from asthma when I was a kid.

— Joey Jordison

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I think being…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

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 wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

— Joan Larkin

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

— Jesmyn Ward

I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I…

— Sylvia Plath

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

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

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

— Kelsea Ballerini