When I first began to write, I was writing on bass…

I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the…

— Paul Engle

One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and…

— Theresa Breslin

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I…

— Victoria Hanley

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was…

— Anthony Burgess

My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think…

— Chinua Achebe

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me…

— Tess Gerritsen

“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done…

— Christopher Paolini

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

— Angela Cartwright

I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.

— Heather McHugh

“Taking out the journal she’d packed, and intending to make some preproduction notes on The Women, Sidda began to write instead about the Ya-Yas.…

— Rebecca Wells

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write…

— Grace Paley

“I began to write again. I wrote just for the fuck of it.”

— Fred Leebron

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

— Grace Paley