Ellen Gilchrist Quotes

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

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

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 write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

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

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 always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

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

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

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.

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

I've always been writing.

I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

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.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I enjoy writing.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.