Firsts Quote by Steven Knight

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane

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

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff,…

— Lena Waithe

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

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but…

— Ben Richards

As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other…

— Victoria Hanley

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

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 really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we…

— Sara Zarr