Cynthia Voigt Quotes

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

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.

I wanted to write.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.

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

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

I enjoy writing.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.