When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I…

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

— Charlie Watts

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the…

— Marva Collins

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

— Vito Acconci

I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I…

— Amanda Hocking

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it…

— Neil Gaiman

I hate when other people read the things I write down and tell other people. but then I get made fun of

— Anonymous

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

“Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.”

— Susan Issacs

If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

— David Ogilvy

I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of…

— Sonia Sanchez

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always…

— Gore Vidal

I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a nurse, teacher,…

— Eppu Nuotio

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make…

— Maya Angelou

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write…

— Jon Foreman