Al Purdy Quotes

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

Writing is my No. 1 passion.

I've been writing since I was 19.

I've been writing since I was really young.

I've always liked new writing.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

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

I love to write.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

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

I love writing different things.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

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

I love to write.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.