Writing Start Quotes

No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.

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

I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

I started writing when I was 4.

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.

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

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

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

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

I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.

'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

The first time I ever wrote anything, it was an editorial column for my high school newspaper.

I started writing in 1948 - basically.

I started writing once I got the ukulele.

It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.'

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 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.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.