Always Quote by Alice Walker

I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6.

— Peter Heller

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30…

— Paul Auster

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to…

— Alice Walker