Age Quote by Terry Pratchett

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

— Cassandra Clare

It helps to know from a very early age what you want to do. From the time I was five years old, I wanted…

— Tom Wolfe

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when…

— Linda Sue Park

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how…

— Avi

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a…

— Sandra Brown

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 think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

— Avi

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like…

— Avi

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you…

— Jean M. Auel

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

— John Boyne

If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of…

— S. E. Hinton