When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub. — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in. — Angela Cartwright Copy Share Image
I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write. — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages. — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written. — Maurice Jarre Copy Share Image
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing… — Srinivasa Ramanujan Copy Share Image
“It was then that I began to write. Writing helps when you can't talk to your friends; it wasn't that my friends… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“I put my pen to the paper and began to write. I’d made so many wishes for so many couples quietly in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“After a long while he sat upright with great effort, exhaled a sigh and reached for a clean sheet of lined paper,… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
“It was time to begin making notes on how the search was going, the people he had met, the conversations he had… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
My favourite place was in The Congo. It's where I began to write songs and build myself as an adult. — Jain Copy Share Image
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Taking out the journal she’d packed, and intending to make some preproduction notes on The Women, Sidda began to write instead about… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew… — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began… — Charles Martin Smith Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image