All Quotes

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
‐‐ John Sladek

I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.
‐‐ Megan Nicole

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.
‐‐ George Mastras

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
‐‐ Ice T

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
‐‐ Fred Saberhagen

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
‐‐ Sue Grafton

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.
‐‐ Marie Lu

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.
‐‐ James Rollins

I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.
‐‐ Sharon Horgan

I started writing songs at 17.
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

I started writing songs at age 15.
‐‐ Vince Clarke

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.
‐‐ Kelsea Ballerini

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
‐‐ Lucinda Williams

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.
‐‐ Courtney Barnett

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.
‐‐ Kimbra

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.
‐‐ Ian Axel

I started writing stories as a child.
‐‐ Danielle Steel

I started writing stories in my spare time.
‐‐ Ken Follett

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.
‐‐ Rodman Philbrick

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.
‐‐ Doreen Cronin

I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
‐‐ Alexi Zentner

I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
‐‐ Nancy Farmer

I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.
‐‐ Lydia Davis

I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.
‐‐ David Steinberg

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
‐‐ Jean M. Auel

I started writing to save my life.
‐‐ Joy Harjo

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
‐‐ Finn Wittrock

I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

I started writing when I was about thirteen.
‐‐ Al Purdy

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
‐‐ David Sedaris

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz

I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.
‐‐ Holly Lisle

I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

I started young. My first record came out when I was - what? 18? So I was in the studio when I was 15, 16.
‐‐ Heavy D

I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
‐‐ Gary Jennings

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.
‐‐ Bo Gritz

I state in my book 'Become Your Own Matchmaker,' confidence is the key to any endeavor. Women don't realize that when they do things they love and are passionate about - their confidence soars. Men are attracted to women who feel happy and decisive about life.
‐‐ Patti Stanger

I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates the most basic of human rights... It's a difficult dilemma.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when I'm competing.
‐‐ Joel Parkinson