Age Quote by Steven Rinella

I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of my freelance…

— Jon Krakauer

I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest plays, in…

— Hassan Blasim

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a…

— Rebecca Solnit

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 liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and…

— John Edgar Wideman

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

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at…

— Amy Tan

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

— Christopher McQuarrie

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it…

— Neil Gaiman

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

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

— Cassandra Clare

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so…

— Derek Walcott