College Quote by Rachel Kushner

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 first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially…

— Natsuo Kirino

It helps to know from a very early age what you want to do. From the time I was five years old, I wanted…

— Tom Wolfe

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

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer.…

— George Orwell

By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the discipline or…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started…

— Ann Hood

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

— Christopher McQuarrie

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 always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at…

— Aya Cash

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson