Application Quote by Tom Waits

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 started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

— Vera Nazarian

Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

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 wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries…

— Julianna Baggott

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an…

— Junot Diaz

I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I…

— W. Bruce Cameron

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 was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I…

— Amanda Hocking

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

— Kelsea Ballerini

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux