Character Quote by Tomi Adeyemi

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me, too, so…

— Tomi Adeyemi

Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working in a…

— Kate DiCamillo

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

— J. K. Rowling

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

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 tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story -…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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 have written stories since I was a child.

— Rachel Joyce

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone…

— John Irving