Age Quote by Toni Morrison

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me…

— Julie Klassen

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is…

— Diane Ackerman

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted,…

— Jonathan Franzen

When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about what seems…

— Hanya Yanagihara

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed…

— Jonathan Meades

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to…

— James A. Michener

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing…

— Jenny Han

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should…

— Wallace Stegner

I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

— Diana Gabaldon

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster