Creation Story

When they became writers, from The Writer’s Book of Days:

M.F.K. Fisher said she became a writer when she was four. It was her way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream.

Madeleine L’Engle knew she was going to be a writer from the moment she wrote her first story. “I was five and it was called ‘G-R-U-L.’ I didn’t know how to spell girl. My father got a new typewriter when I was ten and gave me his old one. I immediately wrote my first novel.”

James Michener didn’t start writing until he wa...