Braces Quote by Samantha Shannon

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Kelsea Ballerini

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and…

— Tom Petty

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

— Anne-Marie Duff

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

— Tennessee Williams

There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could express myself…

— Lorrie Moore

I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have…

— John Leguizamo

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

— Ellen Gilchrist

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

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

— Shawn Mendes

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

— Marie Lu