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My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

— Margaret Mahy

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✓Similar Perspectives

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

— Elizabeth George

From age 7 on, I wanted to be a writer.

— Kristin Gore

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

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

— Avi

I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.

— David Grann

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

— Janet Evanovich

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

✗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

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

— Tobias Wolff