I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature. — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to… — Leslie Banks Copy Share Image
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Initially, I began writing myself into my favorite shows. I was a detective on 77 Sunset Strip, the missing Cartwright sibling they… — Marie Ferrarella Copy Share Image
When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
All I had when I began writing the first book was rather vague images conjured up by the notion of a man… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My three years in Manhattan were sort of my university years. I was learning by myself, and it was a tough time.… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the… — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
Until the early 90s, when I was working on a project about the idea of free will in American philosophy. I knew… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the… — Julie Tetel Andresen Copy Share Image
“what I knew that morning in March 1977 as we settled around the conference table. I wasn’t even sure how these guys… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I began writing late in life but I've learned that the more life you absorb, the more you have to say and… — Andrea Zug Copy Share Image
When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want… — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
