I took to writing at an early age to escape from…

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved…

— Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art…

— Wole Soyinka

I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the…

— Tom Perrotta

What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my siblings and…

— Amanda Gorman

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut…

— Lisa Joy

Coming from a middle-class background of Northern Karnataka, where good education was the only insurance policy, I started reading and writing very early.

— Sudha Murty

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make…

— Dana Spiotta

I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the…

— Grace Paley

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so…

— Derek Walcott

I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest plays, in…

— Hassan Blasim

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to…

— Patrick White

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

— Greg Gutfeld

My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they…

— Jeff VanderMeer

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

— Tom Wolfe

I had no idea, when I was writing early on, that my poems would be published or read by anyone, never mind people I…

— Denise Duhamel