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title: "81 Began Writing Quotes by 77 authors"
description: "Browse 81 Began Writing quotes by 77 authors. Discover the best Began Writing sayings and thoughts."
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> [I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cary-fukunaga/i-began-writing-fictional-stories-and-little-screenplays-when-i-was/)

[Cary Fukunaga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cary-fukunaga/)

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> [I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lois-mcmaster-bujold/i-began-my-writing-career-in-a-very-isolated-place-and-time/)

[Lois McMaster Bujold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lois-mcmaster-bujold/)

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> [I began writing as an experimental writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-cisneros/i-began-writing-as-an-experimental-writer/)

[Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-cisneros/)

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> [I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-straub/i-instantly-chucked-my-academic-ambitions-and-began-writing-fiction/)

[Peter Straub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-straub/)

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> [When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisel-mueller/when-i-am-asked-how-i-began-writing-poems-i-talk-about-the/)

[Lisel Mueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisel-mueller/)

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> [When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charli-xcx/when-i-first-began-writing-music-i-was-really-inspired-by-the-french/)

[Charli XCX](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charli-xcx/)

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> [There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-chernow/there-were-900-books-on-washington-when-i-began-writing-on-him/)

[Ron Chernow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-chernow/)

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> [“I began writing about power because I had so little.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavia-e-butler/i-began-writing-about-power-because-i-had-so-little/)

[Octavia E. Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavia-e-butler/)

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> [I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-banks/i-began-writing-after-my-child-was-seriously-hurt-in-a-day-care/)

[Leslie Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-banks/)

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> [I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-le-carre/i-began-writing-when-i-was-still-in-the-british-foreign-service-and/)

[John le Carre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-le-carre/)

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> [When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gyles-brandreth/when-i-was-a-boy-i-began-writing-a-biography-of-shakespeare-and-since/)

[Gyles Brandreth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gyles-brandreth/)

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> [When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-reed/when-i-began-writing-it-was-a-cosmic-thing-inspiration-wham-short/)

[Ann Reed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-reed/)

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> [I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-townsend/i-never-imagined-when-i-began-writing-in-the-early-1960s-i-d-become/)

[Sue Townsend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-townsend/)

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> [I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kent-haruf/i-began-writing-seriously-in-my-mid-20s-and-didnt-publish-my-first/)

[Kent Haruf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kent-haruf/)

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> [I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shelby-foote/i-began-the-way-nearly-everybody-i-ever-heard-of-i-began-writing/)

[Shelby Foote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shelby-foote/)

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> [During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-schiff/during-that-time-i-began-writing-and-designing-the-propaganda-that-we/)

[Lewis Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-schiff/)

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> [I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-grisham/i-sat-down-with-a-yellow-legal-pad-and-began-writing-a-time-to-kill/)

[John Grisham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-grisham/)

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> [“Initially, I began writing myself into my favorite shows. I was a detective on 77 Sunset Strip, the missing Cartwright sibling they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-ferrarella/initially-i-began-writing-myself-into-my-favorite-shows-i-was-a/)

[Marie Ferrarella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-ferrarella/)

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> [When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erin-mckeown/when-i-began-writing-songs-there-was-a-pretty-direct-line-between/)

[Erin McKeown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erin-mckeown/)

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> [My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-allison/my-assumption-when-i-began-writing-was-that-you-were-never-going-to/)

[Dorothy Allison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-allison/)

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> [All I had when I began writing the first book was rather vague images conjured up by the notion of a man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-gabaldon/all-i-had-when-i-began-writing-the-first-book-was-rather-vague-images/)

[Diana Gabaldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-gabaldon/)

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> [Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-ullman/writing-was-a-way-to-get-away-from-my-life-as-a-programmer-so-i/)

[Ellen Ullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-ullman/)

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> [I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-wanted-to-be-an-artist-i-was-studying-art-i-wanted-to-be-a-great/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [My three years in Manhattan were sort of my university years. I was learning by myself, and it was a tough time.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hallgr-mur-helgason/my-three-years-in-manhattan-were-sort-of-my-university-years-i-was/)

[Hallgrimur Helgason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hallgr-mur-helgason/)

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> [I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-adoff/i-began-writing-for-kids-because-i-wanted-to-effect-a-change-in/)

[Arnold Adoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-adoff/)

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> [Until the early 90s, when I was working on a project about the idea of free will in American philosophy. I knew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-c-guelzo/until-the-early-90s-when-i-was-working-on-a-project-about-the-idea-of/)

[Allen C. Guelzo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-c-guelzo/)

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> [I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-koontz/i-realized-you-might-make-money-at-writing-and-you-might-even-make-a/)

[Dean Koontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-koontz/)

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> [When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/when-i-began-writing-poems-it-was-in-the-late-60s-and-early-70s-when/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

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> [It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavia-butler/it-s-interesting-how-many-science-fiction-writers-get-going-when-they/)

[Octavia Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavia-butler/)

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> [“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-paul-evans/when-i-began-writing-this-story-i-thought-i-had-some-idea-of-what-it/)

[Richard Paul Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-paul-evans/)

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> [“For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-berg/for-ten-years-before-i-began-writing-for-a-living-i-worked-as-a/)

[Elizabeth Berg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-berg/)

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> [“I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-tetel-andresen/i-remember-when-i-first-began-writing-i-would-spend-maybe-five-or-six/)

[Julie Tetel Andresen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-tetel-andresen/)

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> [“what I knew that morning in March 1977 as we settled around the conference table. I wasn’t even sure how these guys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-knight/what-i-knew-that-morning-in-march-1977-as-we-settled-around-the/)

[Phil Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-knight/)

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> [I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kent-haruf/i-began-writing-seriously-in-my-mid-20s-and-didn-t-publish-my-first/)

[Kent Haruf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kent-haruf/)

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> [I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-okri/i-began-my-writing-life-as-a-poet-so-poetry-has-always-been/)

[Ben Okri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-okri/)

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> [I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bell-hooks/i-began-writing-a-book-on-love-because-i-felt-that-the-united-states/)

[Bell Hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bell-hooks/)

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> [“I began writing late in life but I've learned that the more life you absorb, the more you have to say and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-zug/i-began-writing-late-in-life-but-i-ve-learned-that-the-more-life-you/)

[Andrea Zug](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-zug/)

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> [When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-a-jance-2/when-i-began-writing-the-words-that-inspired-me-were-these-a-writer/)

[J. A. Jance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-a-jance-2/)

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> [I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-mukherjee/i-had-just-begun-an-m-a-in-creative-writing-and-i-had-to-write-a/)

[Neel Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-mukherjee/)

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> [Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/then-about-1951-i-began-writing-again-painfully-a-novel-i-called-in/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

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                        "text": "“what I knew that morning in March 1977 as we settled around the conference table. I wasn’t even sure how these guys reached us, or how they’d arranged this meeting. “Okay, fellas,” I said, “what’ve you got?” It was a beautiful day, I remember. The light outside the room was a buttery pale yellow, and the sky was blue for the first time in months, so I was distracted, a little spring feverish, as Rudy leaned his weight on the edge of the conference table and smiled. “Mr. Knight, we’ve come up with a way to inject . . . air . . . into a running shoe.” I frowned and dropped my pencil. “Why?” I said. “For greater cushioning,” he said. “For greater support. For the ride of a lifetime.” I stared. “You’re kidding me, right?” I’d heard a lot of silliness from a lot of different people in the shoe business, but this. Oh. Brother. Rudy handed me a pair of soles that looked as if they’d been teleported from the twenty-second century. Big, clunky, they were clear thick plastic and inside were—bubbles? I turned them over. “Bubbles?” I said. “Pressurized air bags,” he said. I set down the soles and gave Rudy a closer look, a full head-to-toe. Six-three, lanky, with unruly dark hair, bottle-bottom glasses, a lopsided grin, and a severe vitamin D deficiency, I thought. Not enough sunshine. Or else a long-lost member of the Addams Family. He saw me appraising him, saw my skepticism, and wasn’t the least fazed. He walked to the blackboard, picked up a piece of chalk, and began writing numbers, symbols, equations. He explained at some length why an air shoe would work, why it would never go flat, why it was the Next Big Thing. When he finished I stared at the blackboard. As a trained accountant I’d spent a good part of my life looking at blackboards, but this Rudy fella’s scribbles were something else. Indecipherable.”",
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