Nahnatchka Khan Quotes

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 wrote my first story when I was six or seven.

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

All experience helps when you write.

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

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

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've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.

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.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.

One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.