Age Quote by Richard Flanagan

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

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted,…

— Jonathan Franzen

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me…

— Julie Klassen

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do…

— Roger Zelazny

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to…

— James A. Michener

I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't…

— Dave Barry

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day;…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

— Jay IDK

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole…

— Amor Towles

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must…

— Siri Hustvedt

I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and…

— Sudha Murty

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume