Bug Quote by Ann Powers

I wrote my first song in the first or second grade.

— YoungBoy Never Broke Again

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

— Cynthia Voigt

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

— Hugh Hefner

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old…

— Brian Jacques

I was writing poems and little freestyle raps in my notes throughout all of elementary and high school.

— Ice Spice

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and…

— Tom Petty

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

— Stephen Colbert

I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.

— Kate Pierson

I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.

— Jay Rock

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you…

— Dreezy

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates