Adolescent Quote by Will Self

I was writing a lot even as a kid.

— Hailey Gates

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

— Jenny Holzer

The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the…

— Jenny Holzer

I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on my writing…

— Sally Rooney

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention…

— Pierre Loti

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

— William Monahan

My writing did turn out to be quite intact, as it has all my experiences gathered at one place.

— Sonali Bendre

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

— Robert Sapolsky

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

— Tahereh Mafi

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

— Chad Harbach