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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

— Alice Walker

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.

— Ann Hood

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

— Rebecca Makkai

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

— Jerry Spinelli

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

— Alice Walker

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

— Lana Del Rey

I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.

— Alan Furst

✗Opposing Perspectives

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

— Chris Crutcher

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 outgrowth of that.

— Junot Diaz

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt