Thinking Quote by William Monahan

I've been writing since I was really young.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me.

— Brian Bird

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

— Meg Wolitzer

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

The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much…

— Paloma Elsesser

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the…

— Paul Di Filippo

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

I was writing a lot even as a kid.

— Hailey Gates

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for…

— Stephen King

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

— Jesmyn Ward