Book Quote by Ron Rash

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

— Cassandra Clare

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 my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that…

— Carol Windley

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in…

— Paul Auster

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 was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

— Diana Gabaldon

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a…

— Harry Turtledove

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

— Tobias Wolff