Children Quote by Alexander Pope

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

— Alexander Pope

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasure...Either…

— Anton Chekhov

“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest…

— E. Hoffman Price

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

— Anne Rice

I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I…

— Judith Viorst

“immediately commenced copying them, and in a short time was able to make the four letters named. After that, when I met with any…

— Frederick Douglass

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things…

— John Steinbeck

I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more…

— Winifred Holtby

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

— Lena Dunham

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner…

— William Saroyan