Which passage from "names/nombres" best supports the inference that alvarez started to write at a young age?

at the hotel my mother was missus alburest, and i was little girl, as in, "hey, little girl, stop riding the elevator up and down. it's not a toy."
"you know what your friend shakespeare said, 'a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.'"
the biggest gift was a portable typewriter from my parents for writing my stories and poems.
someday, the family predicted, my name would be well-known throughout the united states.