Age Quote by August Wilson

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I…

— Josh Lieb

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize…

— Sharon Creech

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

— August Wilson

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

— Erica Jong

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

— Damien Chazelle

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written,"…

— Andrew Davies

It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because they paid…

— August Wilson

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

— Vera Nazarian

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least…

— Edward Hirsch

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

— Derek Walcott

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

— Jim Harrison